racial divide
Color line persists
Racial divide refers to the separation, tension, or disparity between racial groups within a society.
The divide may be social, economic, political, or geographic: The shooting exposed the racial divide in the community.
Often used with verbs like widen, bridge, or heal: Politicians promised to bridge the racial divide.
- segregationForced separation by group
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- two AmericasSocioeconomic divide within one country
tension · prejudice · apartheid · injustice · bias · disparity · housing discrimination · othering · redlining · school busing · ghetto · protest · unrest · Jim Crow · color line · systemic · marginalized · oppression
- social divisionsgeneration gap, generational gap, gender gap, wealth gap, polarization
- ethnic conflictethnic cleansing, ethnic conflict, ethnic tension, ethnic tensions, ethnic violence
racial divideracial unity
Cohesion among ethnic groups
racial harmony · racial integration · racial reconciliation · social cohesion · colorblindness
racial divideracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
racial equity · racial justice · equal opportunity · integration · nondiscrimination
racial, divide, race, races, raced, racing, racer, racers, racism