After the war, she publicly changed her racial designation in the City Directory from "White" to "Black", causing a little stir among some whites.
Being listed on tribal rolls or being recognized as an Indian by their community influenced people's racial designation.
No one on this census page had a racial designation.
The divisions by simple color of black and white or red and yellow were not really the colors of people but racial designations.
Kameny eschewed conventional racial designations; throughout his life, he consistently cited his race as "human."
Indeed, Federal officials have described the two known suspects as "white," a racial designation that seems to leave open their ethnic origin.
Under the act, every South African was given a racial designation, duly recorded on an identity card.
But there is n sustained objection to ordinary racial designations within the tradition of black emancipation.
Some groups, like Arab-Americans and people from the Indian subcontinent, look at the racial designations and seek categories of their own.
When I won that prize, all of a sudden, there was no longer a racial designation.