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baasskap

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans baasskap, from baas (“boss”) + -skap (“hood”).

  1. borrowed from baasskap

Definitions

  1. Dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over nonwhite peoples.

    • African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. It was intellectual baasskap, a way of institutionalising inferiority.

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