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uniracial en · ADJ

Etymology

From uni- + racial

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Composed of, or having a single race.
    • Finally, it had been earlier noted by new residents moving into what is now the Center District that prior to and during its change from a uniracial (predominantly white) to a biracial system and again to a uniracial (predominantly Negro) school system that the quality of their children's previous educational experiences did not eqiup^([sic]) them to compete on an equal basis with resident children in the same grade and classifications. 1972, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 12:
    • Accordingly the Semite, long subjected by the Aryan, emerges from his primal pre-historic subsidence, and participates as an independent factor in the World's History, which is no longer uniracial as in antiquity, but bi-racial—its character during the whole medieval time. 1908, Denton Jaques Snider, European History: Chiefly Ancient, in Its Processes, Sigma publishing Company, page 672:
    • The world’s largest country, China, which constitutes 20% of the world’s population is at least 94% uniracial. 2000, Guy Ankerl, Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western : a Scientific Essay, INU PRESS, page 93:

Synonyms

monoracial