multiracial

adjective mul·ti·ra·cial \ -ˈrā-shəl \

|Updated on: 12 Aug 2018

Definition of multiracial

: composed of, involving, or representing various races

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multiracialism

play \-shə-ˌli-zəm\ noun

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The multiracial Californian turned Floridian also looks and sounds like America would like to look and sound (in contrast to the pasty and inarticulate incumbent) if America were an action figure.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "The Rock Rules Out 2020 Run," 12 July 2018
Surveying congregation demographics between 1998 and 2012, the study found an increase in the number of multiracial congregations.

— tara isabella burton, Vox, "Before Trump, churches were increasingly multiracial. What next?," 3 July 2018
Last year, 35% of the school's students were white, 20% were Latina, 17% were multiracial, 17% were Asian and Pacific Islander, 5% were black and 6% preferred not to state.

— joy resmovits, latimes.com, "At L.A.'s Immaculate Heart school, the mission is to tell the world about 'the real Meghan' Markle," 18 May 2018
In 2016, a production with a multiracial cast was staged in New York City, and a new touring production with an all-female cast is in the works.

— pam kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Moonlight staging timely musical '1776'," 4 July 2018
Jesse Jackson’s potent and organizationally innovative presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, for example, championed a program of multiracial economic populism while drawing important new activists and operatives into Democratic politics.

— sam rosenfeld, Vox, "The Democratic Party is moving steadily leftward. So why does the left still distrust it?," 22 June 2018
The biggest party in PH, in contrast, is the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), which is proudly multiracial, although led by another former UMNO grandee, Anwar Ibrahim.

— The Economist, "Malaysia’s ruling party may be gone, but its racial policies survive," 7 June 2018
Forty years later, the Women’s March was created and led by a multiracial group of women leaders.

— aimee allison, Teen Vogue, "Women of Color Are Making Election History in 2018," 24 May 2018
The multiracial cast in the Rep’s version of Grover’s Corners does little to change how these townspeople continually fail to see and communicate with each other.

— mike fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Milwaukee Rep delivers darkness on the edge of 'Our Town'," 14 Apr. 2018

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