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Herrenvolk

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Her·ren·volk  (hrn-fk, -fôlk)
n.
A master race.
[German : Herren, genitive pl. of Herr, master; see Herr + Volk, people, nation; see volkslied.]
Herrenvolk German [ˈhɛrənfɔlk]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) See master race
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Noun1.Herrenvolk - a race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the othersHerrenvolk - a race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others
master race
race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"
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In addition to reasons of white geographic mobility and herrenvolk democracy outlined by Charles Bolton, the "competing and contradictory" nature of the relationship between whites and poor whites militated against any sort of underclass solidarity.
Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the ... by Hilliard, Kathleen / Journal of Social History
Melissa Steyn, following George Frederickson, points out that South Africa and the United States, "more than other multiracial societies resulting from the expansion of Europe between the sixteenth century and the twentieth" (2001: 23), have taken the idea of racial differentiation to its utmost extreme, creating "a kind of Herrenvolk society in which people of color, however numerous or acculturated they may be, are treated as permanent aliens or outsiders" (Frederickson 1981: xi-xii).
Squirming white bodies: interracial encounters in Anton Kannemeyer's ... by Strauss, Helene / Journal of Literary Studies
But how did he get under the skin of one of the Herrenvolk so successfully?
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