racial separation

Apartheid-style social structure

Racial separation is the practice or policy of keeping different racial groups apart—in housing, education, public facilities, or social life.

The term can describe either enforced segregation by law or custom, or voluntary clustering by preference.

It carries less historical weight than *segregation* but often describes the same reality: The town's racial separation was obvious in its school enrollment patterns.

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prejudice · ghettos · anti-discrimination laws · identity politics · affirmative action · caste system · blood quantum · bias · systemic racism · dehumanization · internment camps · human rights treaties · color line · stereotyping · ethnic cleansing · segregationist policies · reparations · colonialism

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social integration

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Unifying separated ethnic groups

integration · desegregation · racial unity · social integration · inclusivity

legal/political status

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Guaranteed individual legal protections

equal rights · racial equality · anti-discrimination · anti-apartheid · equal protection

social ideology

racial separationegalitarianism

Philosophy of universal equality

colorblindness · universalism · cosmopolitanism · antiracism · brotherhood

Family

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