English edit

Etymology edit

transracial +‎ -ism

Noun edit

transracialism (uncountable)

  1. The quality of spanning or belonging to more than one race of people.
    • 2011, Laura Flanders, Richard Goldstein, Dean Kuipers, The Contenders, page 67:
      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.
  2. The quality of being transracial, or identifying as another race than the one that one was born into.
    • 2004, John P. Rowan, War and Terrorism, page 187:
      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.