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- adjective No longer bound by
racial divisions
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the most appealing features of the Barack Obama candidacy is the idea that Obama is "postracial" -- that he is a candidate who is black and does not practice the adversarial politics of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Check, Please 2008
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Another nonstop subject of conversation at recent dinners has been about whether the country is entering a "postracial" period — the subject of the book Mr. Bobo is currently writing.
A Gathering Place as Warm as the Conversation Nancy Keates 2011
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We can excuse descriptions of America as "postracial" last year.
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The term "postracial" was born from this appeal, the call to "prove" true a myth that Reverend William Alberts recently attacked as the "racism of equality," meaning that the presumption of equal access is racist.
'Postracial' America, One Year Later Jamie Holmes 2010
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THE WRONG WAY TO REFORM -- New York Times columnist Bob Herbert uses Fenty as Exhibit A in the hazards of neglecting the base: The idea that we had moved into some kind of postracial era was always a ridiculous notion.
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Recent praise of America as "postracial" in outlets as prominent as the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times is less forgivable.
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We can excuse descriptions of America as "postracial" last year.
'Postracial' America, One Year Later Jamie Holmes 2010
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So, by now you have probably heard the jokes and fallout over MSNBC political pundit Chris Matthews 'infamous "postracial" comment.
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Recent praise of America as "postracial" in outlets as prominent as the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times is less forgivable.
'Postracial' America, One Year Later Jamie Holmes 2010
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The term "postracial" was born from this appeal, the call to "prove" true a myth that Reverend William Alberts recently attacked as the "racism of equality," meaning that the presumption of equal access is racist.
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