race suicide

American  

noun

1. the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.

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Etymology

Origin of race suicide

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Example Sentences

Except for Alice, whose daughter Paulina is now 6, each of the Roosevelt children has obeyed his father's command for large families to combat "race suicide."

From Time Magazine Archive

The man generally credited with having invented the phrase "race suicide."

From Time Magazine Archive

The excess of births over deaths was 94,000 Thus is courage given to opponents of race suicide in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as involuntary among mules as old-fashioned families among rabbits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of no account save to show the size of the family to which Fatima belongs and her mother's sound convictions on the subject of race suicide.

From Bluebeard; a musical fantasy by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith