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transracialism en · NOUN

Etymology

From transracial + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of spanning or belonging to more than one race of people.
    • The '60s produced the identity politics Obama decries, but they were also a time when transracialism became a driving force, especially among the young. This was the spark that gave the counterculture its funky fire. 2011, Laura Flanders, Richard Goldstein, Dean Kuipers, The Contenders, page 67:
  2. (uncountable) The quality of being transracial, or identifying as another race than the one that one was born into.
    • Therefore, regardless of whether there is a physiological cause of or predisposition to the desire to change sex, I don't think such a cause or predisposition can consistently be required by the rejecter in order for transracialism to be legitimate. 2004, John P. Rowan, War and Terrorism, page 187: