anti-racist

adjective

an·​ti-rac·​ist ˌan-tē-ˈrā-sist 

ˌan-tī-,

 also  -shist

variants or anti-racism

ˌan-tē-ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm 

ˌan-tī-,

 also  -ˌshi-

: opposed to racism

anti-racist views

anti-racist policies

Burdon's deep love of black music comes with an unusual degree of sincerity as does his long-standing anti-racist stance.

—Paul Taylor

They chanted anti-racism slogans and banged their fists on the newsroom walls …

—Allan Wolper

anti-racist noun

These are hardly the only recent instances of anti-racist works being targeted by anti-racists for being insufficiently anti-racist.

—Catherine Rampell

Examples of anti-racist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Flint, Michigan native became known for his fight to legalize marijuana and as co-founder of the White Panther Party, the anti-racist social group that served as a counterpart to the Black Panthers. —Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024

John said their business is firmly anti-racist and welcomes anyone hoping to purchase a quality cup of coffee. —Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024

The recent Oxford grad has past stops at Chrysalis and Parlophone, and proudly moonlights as co-chair and a founding member of Sony Music UK’s Social Justice Fund supporting anti-racist initiatives. —Marc Schneider, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024

To medical schools and academic centers in the country, Dr Blackstock’s call includes a commitment to invest in the pipeline of Black physicians and commit to a meaningfully diverse, inclusive and anti-racist learning environment. —Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024

The Detroit quintet were blue collar at their core and aligned with the radical White Panther Party, a hometown anti-racist collective, and took their message to the doorstep of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago for a protest concert, as police helicopters hovered. —Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024

In one sense, the furious backlash against the anti-racist outpouring of 2020 and the decade-old Black Lives Matter movement can be interpreted as evidence of the success of those endeavors. —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024

Two-hundred thousand dollars or more is a lot to pay for lessons in how to be an anti-racist. —Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024

The connection between pro-Palestine and anti-racist activism in the U.S. deepened in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd; there is a mural of Floyd on the border wall separating the West Bank from Israel. —Emma Green, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above