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postracist en · ADJ

Etymology

From post- + racist.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) After the decline of racism, or its transformation into a less overt form.
    • In “The Race Card” Richard Thompson Ford, a professor at Stanford Law School, offers the cabdriver problem as a classic illustration of why racial prejudice is so hard to identify and address in an era he defines as postracist, when the social and legal meaning of racism, he writes, “is in a state of crisis.” 2008 February 6, William Grimes, “Colorblind Conclusions on Racism”, in New York Times:

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