racial memory

American  

noun

Psychology.

1. feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.

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Example Sentences

Wolves roam through our racial memory, howling beyond the firelight, scaring the hell out of us.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unsynchronized sound track has the timbre of racial memory, echoing some eternal dream time.

From Time Magazine Archive

I take it that all the stories of both cycles relate to ages of the breakup of civilization: peaceful and civilized times leave less impress on the racial memory.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

In a large sense civilization itself is a kind of racial memory.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight

And the rest of it was real, too—I could see the whole racial memory there, and nobody could have been making that up.

From Warlord of Kor by Carr, Terry Gene