nonracial
Example Sentences
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The proposed tax rules would allow schools to continue to use nonracial criteria, including family income, geography or first-generation college status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"South Africa's lawyers have done the nonracial, post-apartheid country proud," he added.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024
From a legal perspective, a policy with discriminatory intent is unconstitutional even if it uses nonracial or seemingly race-neutral factors to achieve a racial result: It violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
The founders had embedded protections for slavery in the Constitution, but it was only after the abolition war, during what the historian Eric Foner calls the Second Founding, that nonracial citizenship became possible.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2021
For decades, this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colors and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic, nonracial government.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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