apartheids

Institutionalized racial divisions

Apartheids is the plural of apartheid, the system of institutionalized racial segregation enforced in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.

The plural appears when comparing similar regimes or discussing multiple instances of systematic separation: gender apartheids, the apartheids of the American South and South Africa.

political

segregation

Forced separation by group

injustice · inequality · legislation · homelands · pass laws · disenfranchisement · white minority rule · institutionalized · racial classification · Group Areas Act

metaphorical

separation

State of being apart

two-tiered · inequality · walled off · ghettoization · marginalization · systemic bias · class division · social stratification

historical

South Africa

Rainbow nation

Robben Island · sanctions · divestment · boycotts · township · resistance · liberation · transition · 1948 · 1994

Opposites
social/political system

apartheidsintegration

Combining into a whole

equality · desegregation · multiracialism · egalitarianism · pluralism

social condition

apartheidsunity

Wholeness through cohesion

harmony · togetherness · brotherhood · solidarity · coexistence

social/racial policy

apartheidsintegration

Combining into a whole

desegregation · equality · racial equality · inclusivity · inclusion

Phrases
Family

apartheid, anti-apartheid

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