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hyperracial en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + racial.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Highly or excessively racial.
    • Hyperracial fantasies likewise exist throughout the historical avant-garde, and gender politics take a particularly extreme form, leading to hypermasculinism. 2009, Carrie Noland, Barrett Watten, Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, Palgrave MacMillan:
    • The German churches were not strong in any democratic doctrine or spirit to meet this assault of hyperracial nationalism. The Observer was in Germany two years after the war. He found the church leaders monarchical, opposed to the republic […] 1939, Christian Advocate:
    • A hyperracial reality becomes blaringly evident when exploring U.S. popular culture, and more specifically, rap music. 2016, James Braxton Peterson, Hip Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 120:
    • Jefferson's hyperracial culture was not just upheld by students making sly comments in the shadows. Teachers also played a significant role in maintaining racial hierarchies through jokes and biases of their own. 2017, Shayla Reese Griffin, Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School, Harvard Education Press, →ISBN: