transracialism
English
editEtymology
editFrom transracial + -ism.
Noun
edittransracialism (uncountable)
- 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.
- 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.