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English
Etymology
From uni- + racial
Adjective
uniracial (not comparable)
- Composed of, or having a single race.
- Synonym: monoracial
1908, Denton Jaques Snider, European History: Chiefly Ancient, in Its Processes, Sigma publishing Company, page 672:Accordingly the Semite, long subjected by the Aryan, emerges from his primal pre-historic subsidence, and participates as an independent factor in the World's History, which is no longer uniracial as in antiquity, but bi-racial—its character during the whole medieval time.
1972, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 12:Finally, it had been earlier noted by new residents moving into what is now the Center District that prior to and during its change from a uniracial (predominantly white) to a biracial system and again to a uniracial (predominantly Negro) school system that the quality of their children's previous educational experiences did not eqiup them to compete on an equal basis with resident children in the same grade and classifications.
2000, Guy Ankerl, Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western : a Scientific Essay, INU PRESS, page 93:The world’s largest country, China, which constitutes 20% of the world’s population is at least 94% uniracial.