Citations:transrace

See also: Citations:transracial

English citations of transrace

adjective

changing from one race to another, or identifying with a race different from one's birth race

• 2008, Theodore Peter Gournelos, The Tao of South Park: Dissonant Visual Culture →ISBN, page 133:

  […] desires of transgender, transrace, or transspecies people. Instead, it castigates a culture that reifies identity, associates appearance with social role, and interrogates the ethics of using severe plastic surgery to attain a mythic identity.

crossing racial lines and including several or all races; interracial, multiracial

• 2004, Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood →ISBN, page 161:

  Certainly, they supported it, in the name of transrace internationalism that encompassed the most beaten-down and exploited workers.

• 2012, John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication →ISBN, page 260:

  […] for humans themselves are many creatures. Full democracy would be transspecies, transgender, transrace, transregion, transclass, transage, transhuman: what Emerson called "the democracy of chemistry." Even the dead would be invited.

transcending race

• 2008, someone quoted in The New Black Politician (2012):

  "Transcending race. Transrace politicians."

noun

state of being transracial (of having changed race / identifying with a race different from the one assigned at birth)

• 2006, C. J. Heyes, Changing Race, Changing Sex: The Ethics of Self‐Transformation, in the Journal of Social Philosophy:

  What possibilities, then, have been worked into the discourses political philosophers thinking about transrace and transsex have inherited? When we talk about changing sex or race, what do—or could—we mean?