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segregationism

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segregationism
the views and policies of those who would separate or maintain as separate rights, public facilities, etc., on the basis of race. See also apartheid.
See also: Race
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Noun1.segregationism - a political orientation favoring political or racial segregation
ideology, political orientation, political theory - an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
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But his grim picture of an emerging global segregationism clearly contained troubling local significance.
The transnational contexts of early twentieth-century American urban ... by Nightingale, Carl H. / Journal of Social History
Ellis, a right-wing eminence who ran both the Helms machine and the Pioneer Fund, which funded segregationism and eugenics research.
Bolton's Nomination An Insult to the U.N by Joe Conason / The New York Observer
A typical, if florid, example of the rhetoric that accompanied this new breed of extreme segregationism can be found in William Benjamin Smith's The Color Line: A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn: The moment the bar of absolute separation is thrown down in the South, that moment the bloom of her spirit is blighted forever, the promise of her destiny is annulled, the proud fabric of her future slips into dust and ashes.
The secret history of race in the United States. by Sharfstein, Daniel J. / Yale Law Journal
 
 
 
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