segregationalism

Example Sentences

• "Disharmony, disunity and segregationalism reign supreme in the society of the "Brahmanic" Hindus at the expense of unity, integration and harmony."
• "As opposed to settler segregationalism they manifested an 'assimilationist' attitude, although of a paternalist kind, based on the idea of universal rights."
• "From the beginning, Muslim segregationalism thus stood in explicit opposition to King's hope that American society was headed toward a future where people would "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"."
• "The second Zadokite period differs from the first in that while the priesthood remained the structural centre of Jewish society, the passage was made from universalism to segregationalism and the Covenant was seen as having been made between God and the people through the priests and the lay leaders."
• "Such a conception of history works to legitimate the Acadians' segregationalism along similar lines to those expressed by Robin Cohen: "[t]he more ancient and venerable the [diasporic] myth, the more useful it is as a form of social distancing from other ethnic groups...even in the teeth of dispossession and discrimination"."
• "His argument is that people are generally motivated towards give and take relationships along discrete co-ethnic lines and that ethnic segregationalism serves to erode the potential for societal redistribution and for the building of solidarities that are the essential glue of any welfare system."