racial memory
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The unsynchronized sound track has the timbre of racial memory, echoing some eternal dream time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wolves roam through our racial memory, howling beyond the firelight, scaring the hell out of us.
From Time Magazine Archive
No racial memory could have taught them; there were no tin cans a million years, not even a hundred years, ago.
From The Brain by Blade, Alexander
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
The heritage of racial memory was his, and certain words remained still vividly evocative.
From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon
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