Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. not related to or based on a person's race
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not racial; having nothing to do with race or races
Examples
“Question: Do you see the difference between the terms nonracial and multiracial?”
“This testifies to the continuance, strength, and resilience of what might be termed the nonracial tradition in South Africa.”
“It lurks just under the surface of "nonracial" issues: taxes, health care reform, public spending, and, pointedly, immigration.”
“Our country's Obama-era racial politics rarely mentions race in debate, though it lodges race just under the surface of "nonracial" issues: taxes, health care reform, immigration, public spending.”
“(I guess there is a distinction between "nonracial" and "appealing to whites" -- but then only with a black candidate would we be commenting on this being pitched to whites -- put Hilary into this ad in place of Barack, and is it "appealing to whites"??) (But I will admit that my memory for this kind of thing (ads and video in general) is absolutely pathetic, I have forgotten most of the plot of a movie by the time I walk out of a theater, so I can't actually recall any specifics from any of Obama's other commercials ...) (enough with the parentheses already!)”
“He ended his opinion by declaring: For schools that never segregated on the basis of race, such as Seattle, or that have removed the vestiges of past segregation, such as Jefferson County, the way ‘to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,’ is to stop assigning students on a racial basis.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“The study examined more than two thousand homicide cases in Georgia and controlled for 230 nonracial factors.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“If those prove insufficient, however, the new guidance states that a school "may consider a student's race as a 'plus factor' among other, nonracial considerations to achieve its compelling interests" in diversity.”
The Wall Street Journal: Schools Get Advice on Race, Admissions
“He grew up as a young black man in downstate Illinois at a time when racial attitudes there were only marginally more enlightened than in Alabama and was elected to statewide office on an essentially nonracial basis.”
“** Then again, maybe Lash looks less appealing for nonracial reasons.”
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