racial group

noun

plural racial groups

: any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry : race entry 1 sense 1a

America's maternal mortality rate has more than doubled in the past generation, and researchers have shed new light on the disparities in racial groups.

—Ron Southwick

Such suspicion is heightened by the zero-sum worldview shared by most nationalists, under which one ethnic or racial group can only gain at the expense of others.

—Ilya Somin

Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above