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Racinated/racination is a back-formation from the word deracinate, which means to uproot or remove from a natural habitat and is sometimes applied to the moving of people from their homeland to a foreign place. Racinated, then, indicates rootedness or the state of being in one's native environment.
Last updated: March 22, 2007.
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Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic utilizes a clever back-formation from deracination (displacement from a native environment; uprootedness) by calling US presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama "racinated," meaning that he is very rooted in and proud of his background and genealogy:
"...Obama has been promoting the multiplicity of his origins as a qualification for leadership. This strikes me as little more than identity politics, but with a cunning refinement: Instead of being representative of one thing, he is representative of all things. He is typical of everybody, the most racinated American of all."
Link: OBAMA: THE PERILS OF CHARM By LEON WIESELTIER - New York Post Online Edition
Posted March 22, 2007.
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