race relations

noun

1. (functioning as plural) the relations between members of two or more human races, esp within a single community

2. (functioning as singular) the branch of sociology concerned with such relations

Example Sentences

Moreover, BEE has contributed to keeping the majority of Black South Africans poor, says Hermann Pretorius, a senior researcher at the South African Institute of Race Relations.

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And he believes - like Mockingbird - the stories have something to say about modern race relations in the US which is "part of the continuing relevance of what she wrote".

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To Kill A Mockingbird "had a huge influence on the way a lot of people thought about race relations in the United States".

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Catholic clergy had no problem celebrating Kirk, whose positions on immigration, Palestine, climate change, race relations, and a host of other issues were entirely at odds with the Vatican’s.

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“The meeting was held at an undisclosed location in Manhattan. The group reportedly told him that an ‘explosive situation’ had developed in race relations in the North that, potentially, was at least equal to the growing racial strife in the South.”

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