Example sentences for: multiracial

How can you use “multiracial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For a "multiracial" box would be an admission that the five points of our modern-day "ethno-racial pentagon" (black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Native American) are not fixed or divinely ordained, but fickle and all too man-made.

  • In April 1994, South Africa held multiracial elections.

  • Many people of multiracial backgrounds prefer to identify themselves as “black,” on the theory that it enhances the interests of the African- American population to appear as numerous as possible.

  • In recent years he has increasingly aligned himself not with British or American poetry but with a multilingual and multiracial Antillean literature that includes such writers as Jean Rhys, Lafcadio Hearn, Saint-John Perse (another Nobel winner), V.S.

  • The Census Bureau's "multiracial" proposal has provoked strong reactions from civil-rights activists who fear that many African Americans will defect to the new category, thus diluting black political power.


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