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
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
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
Not alone do I possess racial memory to an enormous extent, but I possess the memories of one particular and far-removed progenitor.
From Before Adam by London, Jack
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