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English
Etymology
Calque of German Rassengefühl, from Rasse (“race”) + Gefühl (“feeling”).
Noun
race feeling (plural race feelings)
- (historical) Love of one's own race, or hatred of other races.
- Synonym: racial feeling
1879, Monier Williams, Modern Indian and the Indians, Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and Essays, 3rd edition, London: Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill, page 176:there is what is called the race feeling, by which is meant the natural antipathy between races of different coloured skins—a feeling which, however manifestly unreasonable, is difficult to overcome.
1885 August 10, “Race Differences”, in The Montreal Daily Witness, page 4:We cannot help fearing that the opportunity is being taken to make capital out of race feeling by nursing it into race antipathies.
1888 September, George Lansing Taylor, “The New Africa:—III. Its Destiny”, in Methodist Review, page 704:His race feeling is so strong that he seems to prefer Islam when taught by blacks to Christianity when brought by whites