apartheid

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

   • She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection
   • The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
   • The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation.
2. 2

   Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly…

   Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.

   • The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
   • When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public […] .
   • Jim Crow miscegenation laws enforced apartheid in marriage.
3. 3

   A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.

   • In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.
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   1. 4

      To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.

      • Yes, apartheiding the apartheiders, is what the rest of the world is doing.
      • Whatever the reason the blacks have for "apartheiding" Boston, whites should be all for it.
      • The most deadly of all ghosts are wandering over Britain and medicine, apartheiding people into superiors and nonentities.

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