post-racial
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of post-racial
Example Sentences
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Despite the kumbaya vibes, Santa Monica High was hardly a post-racial utopia.
From Los Angeles Times
“Has it reached a moment in society where you can say it’s post-racial? Are women finally treated equally? I can’t say that that’s the case. Sometimes it looks like progress, but you open a front door and you find out the back door got shut behind you and you didn’t even notice it.”
From Los Angeles Times
During Obama's second term, I served as the marketing and communications director at a racial justice organization working to humanize undocumented immigrants, draw attention to the indiscriminate killing of Black men and boys, and ultimately, to underscore the fact that despite electing our first Black president, we were not, in fact, a post-racial society.
From Salon
One of the defining features of the Trumpocene and ascendant fascism is how so many people did not believe that such events in their full and now obvious horror would ever be possible in post-World War II and “post-racial” America, the “strongest” and “most vibrant ‘democracy’ in the world.”
From Salon
The presidency of Barack Obama was producing a “post-racial” society.
From Salon
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