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multi-ˈracial, multiracial, a.
Of, pertaining to, or comprising several races, peoples, or ethnic groups; characterized by the coexistence or co-operation of individual members of such groups on amicable and equal terms. Also fig. So multi-ˈracially adv.
1923Overseas Sept. 45 The interests of modern civilisation and, I think, Christian ethics, are better expressed in large, bi-racial or multi-racial States,..where racialism is accounted a public curse rather than a civic virtue. 1933E. B. Reuter in E. S. Bogardus Social Probl. & Social Processes 96 The type of accommodation made is of course an individual matter, but the forms that it takes are..those familiar in other bi-racial or multi-racial political areas. 1947Forum (Johannesburg) X. i. 25/1 We, as a multi-racial society, have had our differences, while sharp antagonisms unfortunately exist today. 1957L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 209 The unifying influence which this hostility is exerting upon Israel's multiracial population. 1957Economist 19 Oct. 204/2 He triumphantly created the first multiracial government in Africa at the height of Mau Mau. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 21/2 One feels the pleasant relief of a man living a multi-racial life away from the colour bar. 1959New Statesman 28 Feb. 300/1 But it is his attack on the multi-racial clothing industry—involving the dismissal and replacement of 35,000 non-whites—that has frightened the coloured people especially. 1963Economist 30 Nov. 887/3 Such a multi⁓racially-run world. 1966Listener 6 Oct. 499/3 Closer contact between..the university worker and the industrial scientist, to make a truly ‘multi-racial’ commonwealth of scholarship. 1972T. Lilley K Section ix. 40 The Dock Labourers' Union was one of the biggest... Multi-racial, it owed allegiance only to itself. |