anti-racist
adjective
an·ti-rac·ist
ˌan-tē-ˈrā-sist 
ˌan-tī-,
also -shist
variants
or anti-racism
: 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
Paul TaylorThey chanted anti-racism slogans and banged their fists on the newsroom walls …—Allan Wolper
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
Catherine Rampell
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Antifa activism traces its roots to anti-racist efforts aimed at opposing the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, according to a June 2020 report from the Congressional Research Service.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Tabone connects Jemisin’s work to intersectional feminist praxis, Afrofuturism, and twenty-first-century anti-racist political movements including Black Lives Matter.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Maybe the anti-racist racists will have to do that this year.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
However, since its inception, the university’s anti-racist research center has hardly hosted any events or turned out any discernible academic content despite the more than $1 million poured into it.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Tabone connects Jemisin’s work to intersectional feminist praxis, Afrofuturism, and twenty-first-century anti-racist political movements including Black Lives Matter.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Maybe the anti-racist racists will have to do that this year.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
However, since its inception, the university’s anti-racist research center has hardly hosted any events or turned out any discernible academic content despite the more than $1 million poured into it.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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“Anti-racist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-racist. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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