🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

conciencia racial

Pronunciation / Transliteration: konˈsjensja raˈsjal

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Racial-awareness/ˈreɪ.ʃəl əˈwɛə.nəs/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La conciencia racial ayuda a combatir la discriminación."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The conscious recognition and understanding of race, racial identity, and systemic racial issues within society.

    "Fostering racial-awareness in educational curricula helps students navigate complex social landscapes."
  2. 2

    A heightened sensitivity to one's own racial biases and the privileges or disadvantages associated with racial categories.

    "Corporate diversity training often begins with building personal racial-awareness among employees."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'racial', derived from the noun 'race' (from Old French race, ultimately of uncertain origin possibly from Italian razza), and 'awareness', formed from 'aware' (Old English gewǣre) with the nominal suffix '-ness'. It emerged prominently in sociological and psychological discourse during the mid-20th century to describe the conscious recognition of racial dynamics in society.

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