racially challenged

English

Adjective

racially challenged (not comparable)

1. (US, euphemistic) Not white, and thus facing challenges (or perceived as deficient) due to racism.
   • 2009, Michael Dibdin, End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, page 206:

     He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses.

   • 2013, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Crossing Black: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture:

     Derricotte explains that being racially challenged moves one “outside of love, community” and places “that territory in another person's head that made her the thing hated".

   • 2019, Brock E. Deskins, The Portal, Crossroad Press:

     "You must have quite a powerful mind for one so young and racially challenged." Ted looked up sharply at the dragon's comment. "What do you mean, racially challenged? A black kid can't be a wizard? I guess all wizards have to be white […] "

2. (US, euphemistic) White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc.
   • 2000, Refugees, page 20:

     […] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.

   • 2010, Peter R. Eisenstadt, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:

     And he gives an account of the odd coupling of Utopian co-op developer Abraham Kazan and the anti-utopian, racially challenged Robert Moses that is alone worth the price of admission.

   • 2013, L. Brent Bozell, III, Tim Graham, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election---and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:

     It was also implied that the racially challenged Republicans, hobbled by their party's overwhelming whiteness, somehow didn't want nonwhite Americans to share in the coming cornucopia.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially,‎ challenged.
   • 2000, Edmond Maloba Were, Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Nationalism and Democracy for People Centred Development in Africa:

     […] belonging, accommodation and attachment to a nation, with white Africans or Asian Africans being nationalistically and racially challenged. The case of politically aspiring white Kenyans has become a recent politically heated debate.