racially challenged
Definitions
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Not white, and thus facing challenges (or perceived as deficient) due to racism. US, euphemistic, not-comparable
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White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc. US, euphemistic, not-comparable
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially, challenged. not-comparable
Examples
“He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses.”
“Derricotte explains that being racially challenged moves one “outside of love⟳, community” and places “that territory in another person's head that made her the thing hated".”
“"You must have⟳ quite a powerful mind⟳ for one so young and racially challenged." Ted looked up sharply at the dragon's comment⟳. "What do you mean⟳, racially challenged? A black kid can't be a wizard? I guess⟳ all wizards have⟳ to be white […]"”
“[…] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.”
“And he gives an account of the odd coupling of Utopian co-op developer Abraham Kazan and the anti-utopian, racially challenged Robert Moses that is alone worth the price of admission.”
“It was also implied that the racially challenged Republicans, hobbled by their party's overwhelming whiteness, somehow didn't want⟳ nonwhite Americans to share⟳ in the coming cornucopia.”
“[…] belonging, accommodation and attachment to a nation, with white Africans or Asian Africans being nationalistically and racially challenged. The case of politically aspiring white Kenyans has become⟳ a recent politically heated debate⟳.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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