单词 | Jim Crow |
释义 | Jim Crow or jim crow ![]() n. The systematic practice of discriminating against and segregating black people, especially as practiced in the American South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-1900s. adj. 1. Upholding or practicing discrimination against and segregation of black people: Jim Crow laws; a Jim Crow town. 2. Reserved or set aside for a racial or ethnic group that is to be discriminated against: "I told them I wouldn't take a Jim Crow job" (Ralph Bunche). [From obsolete Jim Crow, derogatory name for a black person, ultimately from the title of a 19th-century minstrel song.] Jim-Crowism (-krōĭz′əm) n. |
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