Race traitor

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Race traitor is a pejorative reference to someone who is perceived as supporting attitudes or positions thought to be antithetical to the interests or well-being of their own race. For example, one or both parties to an interracial relationship^[1] may be characterised as "race traitors". The term may indicate racialist attitudes on the part of those who use it.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the character of Atticus Finch is seen as a race traitor by many of his fellow white residents, who call him a "nigger lover" for defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. More recently, Condoleezza Rice has been described by some as a race traitor (or an Aunt Jemima or Uncle Tom) by some African-Americans who consider her conservative political views and actions in the service of the politically conservative Bush administration at odds with the interests of African-Americans.

The term is the source of the name of a quarterly magazine, Race Traitor, founded in 1992.