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racial
has definitions from the field of genetics
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[ adjective ] (genetics) of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people
Examples "racial groups" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in employment was called_for yesterday in a report of a `` blue_ribbon '' citizens_committee on the aid to dependent children program . The report called racial discrimination in employment `` one of the most serious causes of family breakdown , desertion , and ADC dependency '' . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors . But apart from racial problems , the old unreconstructed South - to use the moderate words favored by Mr._Thomas_Griffith - finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)it might be pointed_out that the integrating function of religion , for good or ill , has often supported or been identified with other groupings - political , nationality , language , class , racial , sociability , even economic . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups
Examples "racial differences" "racial discrimination" Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds , and has always found , the most racial friction . Related terms |
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