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nonracial

British  
/ nɒnˈreɪʃəl /

adjective

  1. not related to racial factors or discrimination

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The proposed tax rules would allow schools to continue to use nonracial criteria, including family income, geography or first-generation college status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"South Africa's lawyers have done the nonracial, post-apartheid country proud," he added.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024

The founders had embedded protections for slavery in the Constitution, but it was only after the abolition war, during what the historian Eric Foner calls the Second Founding, that nonracial citizenship became possible.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2021

Reinstatement didn't come until 1992, when apartheid laws were dissolving and South Africa's long-divided soccer associations had united as the nonracial South African Football Association.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2010

I told them I was a South African nationalist, not a Communist, that nationalists came in every hue and color, and that I was firmly committed to a nonracial society.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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