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uniracial

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Etymology

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From uni- +‎ racial

Adjective

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uniracial (not comparable)

  1. Composed of, or having a single race.
    Synonym: monoracial
    • 1908, Denton Jaques Snider, European History: Chiefly Ancient, in Its Processes, Sigma publishing Company, page 672:
      Accordingly the Semite, long subjected by the Aryan, emerges from his primal pre-historic subsidence, and participates as an independent factor in the World's History, which is no longer uniracial as in antiquity, but bi-racial—its character during the whole medieval time.
    • 1972, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 12:
      Finally, it had been earlier noted by new residents moving into what is now the Center District that prior to and during its change from a uniracial (predominantly white) to a biracial system and again to a uniracial (predominantly Negro) school system that the quality of their children's previous educational experiences did not eqiup[sic] them to compete on an equal basis with resident children in the same grade and classifications.
    • 2000, Guy Ankerl, Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western : a Scientific Essay, INU PRESS, page 93:
      The world’s largest country, China, which constitutes 20% of the world’s population is at least 94% uniracial.