person of color
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈpɜrsən əv ˈkʌlər/
- US
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persona de color
- Could the fact that the stranger in the storm was a person of color, male or female, have in any way affected what happened?
- woman and person of color
- first person of color
- poor person of color
And you do need to have guides along the way, at least if you're a person of color.
- And you do need to have guides along the way, at least if you're a person of color.
- Because, OK, you're saying I'm not white and I'm not a person of color.
- Can't said those things in public, in print, as a serious academic, just without ever asking a single person of color.
- But he Brian is helping all people of color, all, you know, all people of all shapes.
- Is it OK because he's a person of color who puts other people of color in his movies for Nope?
- At the same time, you know, again, I, I'm, I'm, I guess these days I'm a person of color, but I, I reject those types of labels.
- How a A might work for a person of color who is generally used to being in community with others.
Examples
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I'm a person of color.
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"I identify with them as a person of color."
Blog text (11) -
One day he'll be the first person of color elected President of the United States.
Blog text (16) -
I was moved that this country, in light of our history, elected a person of color as our president.
Blog text (16) -
In Michigan, almost a quarter of the state's population is a person of color.
Blog text (30) -
There's no better place for a person of color to live but this country.
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"Being a person of color," said Anaya, "I never assumed the library was a place for me."
Academic text (2017) -
More persons of color have been hired, and new tools for managing diversity-related conflicts have been put in place.
Academic text (2005) -
When Republicans don't like a Democrat who happens to be a person of color, we are called racists.
Blog text (11) -
As a person of color, he often faces challenges that his white peers do not.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
person + of + color
The component words 'person' and 'color' make the referent interpretable as a person identified by (skin) color, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will likely guess it refers to racial identity (i.e., non-white). However the phrase carries a specific socio-political, euphemistic usage and collective nuance that is not fully predictable from the literal words alone, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Person of color uses the simple image of a person and their color, the shade of their skin, to mean someone who is 'not white'. So it became a polite, general way to talk about race and the problems people may face because of it.