racial memory
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
The heritage of racial memory was his, and certain words remained still vividly evocative.
From The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
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 Newell Dwight Hillis
There is a racial memory by which the past is continually accumulated and preserved.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
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