raced

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

raced

1. simple past and past participle of race

Adjective

raced (not comparable)

1. (sociology) Pertaining to or marked in terms of race.
   • 2007, Steve Garner, Whiteness: An Introduction, page 39:

     McKinney presents a large number of accounts by her students that describe white people coming to realise they are raced.

   • 2011, Richard A. Bailey, Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, page 48:

     In fact, as Jordan's analysis attests, whites constructed raced identities for Africans founded not so much on their assumptions about a color but more on the various ways in which they experienced life alongside their darker-skinned neighbors.

   • 2012, Jayne Osgood, Narratives from the Nursery, page 103:

     In this study, Mulberry Bush Nursery took exclusively fee-paying, predominantly white, middle class children from three months to three years old. This provided a site for highly classed and 'raced' relationships between nursery worker and mother, where the nursery worker is positioned in an inferior position of servitude to the professional middle-class mother.

Derived terms

• unraced

Anagrams

• Cedar, arced, cedar, cadre, Cerda, Dacre, cared, Cerdà, acred, ecard, e-card, CADRe, cader, decar

Welsh

Etymology

From English racket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrakɛd/

Noun

raced f (plural racedi, not mutable)

1. racket

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “raced”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies