Meaning of misrace | Babel Free

Definitions

To incorrectly identify someone's race.

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Examples

“More recently, Fram had an acrimonious semantic debate with a high-profile transgender editor over whether referring to them as "xe" constituted misgendering. It culminated in an ugly claim by Fram that he would not be misracing a black person by calling them the n-word, only being racist.”

“We had two models who aren't Asian. One was Palmtrees [Olin Caprison] and the other was Micaela Durand. They often get misraced as Asian, so we included them in the show.”

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