raced

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of race

adj

  1. (social studies) Belonging to a certain race of people.
    McKinney presents a large number of accounts by her students that describe white people coming to realise they are raced. 2007, Steve Garner, Whiteness: An Introduction, page 39
    In fact, as Jordan's analysis attests, whites constructed raced identities for Africans founded not so much on their assumptions about a color but more on the various ways in which they experienced life alongside their darker-skinned neighbors. 2011, Richard A. Bailey, Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, page 48

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