Sentences with phrase «word for segregation»
Gentrification is just another word for segregation, OK?»
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«States» Rights» was the code - word for segregation back then (and it still is).
Not exact matches
For example, the Israeli West Bank Barrier is called Geder Ha «hafrada, it means separation fence; and separation as a word is synonymous with segregation and this usefully points to another historical situation that casts some light here: the racist segregation policies of the USA concerning their black minority, particularly in the Deep South before they began to be dismantled during the era of the Civil Rights struggle under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luthor King.
The phrase «states» rights», although literally referring to powers of individual state governments in the United States, was described by David Greenberg in Slate as «code words» for institutionalized segregation and racism.
From the Declaration of Independence to the U.S. Supreme Court decision ending school segregation, this new book is the place to look for the words that inspired, educated, and shaped our nation.
Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.
«Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word,» Rankine writes in her book Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), which has been a touchstone, since its publication, for many artists working with poetry.