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Word: raceless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world. Literature is inexorably about life, and so the best literature should speak, on different levels, to everyone as Morrison's writing does, over and over. Toni Morrison sends us in search of the meanings of love, belonging, ostracism, violence and beauty through stories of black people and, now, raceless people. Thanks for recognizing her as the "Great American Storyteller." SARAH MILLER New Haven, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...worthy, such as the often patronizing treatment of blacks as victims or the cynical redrawing of legislative maps to ensure the election of minorities to public office. Sleeper, a self-described liberal, calls on blacks and whites to "let race go" and move toward "the gossamer threads and raceless glue of an endless American belonging." Sounds wonderful--but what does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE MEN'S BURDEN: TIRED IDEAS | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...impossible to tell what gender a particular dancer is; the women are as strong as the men and the men as graceful as the women. Everyone is androgynous and, for the most part, of undiscernable race, a superhuman grouof powerful, raceless, sexless beings, so talented that it is clear they could not be mere mortals...

Author: By Eleni N. Gage, | Title: Ailey Company Leaps Into Future | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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