race feeling

English

Alternative forms

• race-feeling

Etymology

Calque of German Rassengefühl, from Rasse (“race”) +‎ Gefühl (“feeling”).

Noun

race feeling (plural race feelings)

1. (historical) Love of one's own race, or hatred of other races.

   Synonym: racial feeling

   • 1879, Monier Williams, Modern Indian and the Indians, Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and Essays, 3rd edition, London: Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill, page 176:

     there is what is called the race feeling, by which is meant the natural antipathy between races of different coloured skins—a feeling which, however manifestly unreasonable, is difficult to overcome.

   • 1885 August 10, “Race Differences”, in The Montreal Daily Witness, page 4:

     We cannot help fearing that the opportunity is being taken to make capital out of race feeling by nursing it into race antipathies.

   • 1888 September, George Lansing Taylor, “The New Africa:—III. Its Destiny”, in Methodist Review, page 704:

     His race feeling is so strong that he seems to prefer Islam when taught by blacks to Christianity when brought by whites