disfranchisement
Stripping ballot access
Disfranchisement is the act of taking away someone's rights, especially the right to vote.
The term appears most often in discussions of voter suppression and civil rights history: Literacy tests were tools of disfranchisement aimed at Black voters.
More broadly, disfranchisement can mean exclusion from any privilege or membership.
Also spelled disenfranchisement.
Rule by one
- oligarchyRule by few
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
tyranny · junta · censorship · propaganda · apartheid · colonialism · occupation · annexed
Being barred from participation
- alienationState of being isolated
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
- voicelessnessLack of spoken sound
- powerlessnessInability to affect outcomes
invisibility · erasure · sidelining · othering · dehumanization · subjugation · oppression · ghettoization
Forced separation by group
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- suffragetteMilitant women's voting advocate
- covertureWife's suspended legal identity
wardship · denaturalization · deportation · stateless · unprotected · refugee · undocumented · internment
Deprived of voting rights
- poll-taxPer-person government levy
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- votelessUnable to cast ballots
- unregisteredNot formally recorded
ineligible · disqualified · nonvoter · redistricting · purged · caging · undervote
autocracy
Rule by one
- oligarchyRule by few
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
dictatorship · tyranny · junta · censorship · propaganda · apartheid · colonialism · occupation · annexed · unrepresented
exclusion
Being barred from participation
- alienationState of being isolated
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
- voicelessnessLack of spoken sound
powerlessness · invisibility · erasure · sidelining · othering · dehumanization · subjugation · oppression · ghettoization · segregation
segregation
Forced separation by group
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- suffragetteMilitant women's voting advocate
coverture · wardship · denaturalization · deportation · stateless · unprotected · refugee · undocumented · internment · NAACP
disenfranchised
Deprived of voting rights
- poll-taxPer-person government levy
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- votelessUnable to cast ballots
unregistered · ineligible · disqualified · nonvoter · redistricting · purged · caging · undervote
redlining
Refusing loans by neighborhood
- purgingForcible elimination of unwanted
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
disfranchisementenfranchisement
Granting citizenship rights
suffrage · voting rights · franchise · voter registration · universal suffrage
disfranchisementenfranchisement
Granting citizenship rights
empowerment · political empowerment · self-determination · representation · democratization
disfranchisementenfranchisement
Granting citizenship rights
inclusion · equal rights · civil rights · emancipation · integration
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