interracialism

[ in-ter-rey-shuh-liz-uhm ]

noun

1. action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interracialism¹

First recorded in 1930–35; interracial + -ism

Example Sentences

This is different from the interracialism that I talk about throughout the book, but you do have Black power experiments in creating communities like Soul City, or the community MOVE, which people mostly know about because of the bombing that happened there in Philadelphia in the early 1980s.

From Salon

The decade of the 1960s was marked by unprecedented interracialism in pop music, from the revolutionary crossover success of Motown Records, to the racially mixed Southern soul of Memphis and Muscle Shoals, to the Anglicized R&B and “blue-eyed soul” of the British Invasion.

From Slate

“One cannot have a movement in America,” Cruse said, “rooted in the protest tradition, but also rife with integrationism, separatism, interracialism, nationalism, Marxist and anti-Marxist radicalism, Communist and anti-Communist radicalism, liberalism, anarchism, nihilism, and religionism—and expect such a movement not to be a failure.”

From Slate