"racial memory" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50",
          "text": "Even in primitive worlds it persists in racial memories.",
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        "race memory"
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      "id": "en-racial_memory-en-noun--U1kfoya",
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          "race memory",
          "race memory"
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  "word": "racial memory"
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      "form": "racial memories",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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        {
          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Even in primitive worlds it persists in racial memories.",
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        "race memory"
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          "race memory",
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  "word": "racial memory"
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