raced
English
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Verb
raced
- simple past and past participle of race
Adjective
raced (not comparable)
- (sociology) Pertaining to or marked in terms of race.
- 2007, Steve Garner, Whiteness: An Introduction, page 39:
- McKinney presents a large number of accounts by her students that describe white people coming to realise they are raced.
- 2011, Richard A. Bailey, Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, page 48:
- 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.
- 2012, Jayne Osgood, Narratives from the Nursery, page 103:
- In this study, Mulberry Bush Nursery took exclusively fee-paying, predominantly white, middle class children from three months to three years old. This provided a site for highly classed and 'raced' relationships between nursery worker and mother, where the nursery worker is positioned in an inferior position of servitude to the professional middle-class mother.
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Welsh
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrakɛd/
Noun
raced f (plural racedi, not mutable)
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “raced”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies