post-racial

adjective

post-ra·​cial ˌpōst-ˈrā-shəl 

variants or less commonly postracial

: having overcome or moved beyond racism : having reached a stage or time at which racial prejudice no longer exists or is no longer a major social problem

And for all of the positive impact that Obama's presidency had on black people, it still could not make America the post-racial society many thought it would be after Obama's election.

—Kevin Cokley

Examples of post-racial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Beliefs About The Glass Ceiling May Shift Obama’s election to the White House led many to believe that the U.S. had entered a post-racial era—one where Americans would increasingly make race-free judgments about their leaders. —Corinne Post, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024

Sure, Harris’ childhood probably wasn’t a post-racial dream, no more than former President Obama’s. —Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024

This is the line that talking heads have proffered since Obama’s election by claiming the post-racial age. —Jonathan Holloway, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2014

For much of his career, O.J. Simpson symbolized a post-racial America. —NPR, 11 Apr. 2024

One exemplifies post-racial America—a Black professor, his white wife, and their biracial daughter—and the other is a troupe of caricatures in blackface. —Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024

Hynes says the term transracial adoptee has had a controversial history, first originating in the 1960s when it was used by social workers and white adoptive parents who envisioned a post-racial society with a new colorblind paradigm. —Sierra Lyons, Parents, 1 Dec. 2023

The film’s true insidiousness in propagating this myth lies in the fact that the post-racial concept doesn’t intend to decouple Oher from his Black identity. —Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023

In 2009, people were talking about a post-racial America. —Abc News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above