race relations

Noun

Meaning

The patterns of behaviour between ethnic groups of people

The branch of sociology that studies these patterns

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. Vida Blue

And still when the delicate and unconscious machinery of race relations slips, there will be murder again. How can law contradict the lives of millions of people and hope to be administered successfully? Richard Wright

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. Constance Baker Motley

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. Constance Baker Motley

I think the public sector cuts have the potential to set back race relations and black and ethnic minority communities by a generation. Diane Abbott

We keep looking for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help in putting race relations back on the front burner after they've been subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years. Bryant Gumbel

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