racial memory

English

Noun

racial memory (plural racial memories)

1. race memory
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28:

     It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.

   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50:

     Even in primitive worlds it persists in racial memories.