post-racial

adjective

post-ra·​cial ˌpōst-ˈrā-shəl How to pronounce post-racial (audio)
variants or less commonly postracial
: having overcome or moved beyond racism : having reached a stage or time at which racial prejudice no longer exists or is no longer a major social problem
And for all of the positive impact that Obama's presidency had on black people, it still could not make America the post-racial society many thought it would be after Obama's election.Kevin Cokley

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Beliefs About The Glass Ceiling May Shift Obama’s election to the White House led many to believe that the U.S. had entered a post-racial era—one where Americans would increasingly make race-free judgments about their leaders. Corinne Post, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024 Sure, Harris’ childhood probably wasn’t a post-racial dream, no more than former President Obama’s. Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024 This is the line that talking heads have proffered since Obama’s election by claiming the post-racial age. Jonathan Holloway, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2014 For much of his career, O.J. Simpson symbolized a post-racial America. NPR, 11 Apr. 2024 One exemplifies post-racial America—a Black professor, his white wife, and their biracial daughter—and the other is a troupe of caricatures in blackface. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 Hynes says the term transracial adoptee has had a controversial history, first originating in the 1960s when it was used by social workers and white adoptive parents who envisioned a post-racial society with a new colorblind paradigm. Sierra Lyons, Parents, 1 Dec. 2023 The film’s true insidiousness in propagating this myth lies in the fact that the post-racial concept doesn’t intend to decouple Oher from his Black identity. Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023 In 2009, people were talking about a post-racial America. Abc News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of post-racial was in 1971

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“Post-racial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post-racial. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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