racial memory

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Noun

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racial memory (plural racial memories)

  1. race memory
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28:
      It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50:
      Even in primitive worlds it persists in racial memories.