单词 | colour bar |
释义 | colour barcolor barn. 1. A system within a society, organization, etc., which denies black and other non-white people access to the same rights, opportunities, and facilities as white people. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > segregation or discrimination discrimination1819 colour discrimination1868 colour bar1869 segregation1903 plural democracy1939 apartheid1947 parallel development1950 separate development1955 petty apartheid1964 1869 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 2 Feb. An abandonment of the color bar to the elective franchise. 1890 Our Day Feb. 184 To encourage all state and local leagues in their efforts to break down all color bars in obtaining for the Afro-American an equal chance with others in the vocations of life. 1914 W. G. Lawrence in Home Lett. T.E. Lawrence (1954) 546 Relations between English and Hindu professors are bad, and there is a distinct colour bar except in the Mission colleges. 1955 Times 8 July 9/6 These men, and possibly many others, are excluded from their country's teams in international games because their country has a colour-bar. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. ix. 223 Johnson couldn't enter official British championship contests because of the colour bar operated by boxing's Board of Control. 2. South African. spec. The restriction of skilled jobs to white people, originally in the mining industry. Cf. job reservation n. at job n.2 Compounds 2c. Now historical.First entrenched in the Mines and Works Act, No.12 of 1911 and its amendment in 1926 before being extended by further Acts in the 1950s. The legislation was repealed in 1986. ΚΠ 1921 J. C. Smuts in S. G. L. Millin Gen. Smuts (1936) II. 353 The country has been flooded with a campaign of misstatements about the colour bar... The issue is not about the colour bar but how to save the low grade mines from extinction. 1941 Bantu World 25 Jan. 4 In Xhosa and Sutho it urged us to ‘come in our thousands and fight the Pass and Tax Laws, Pick-up vans, Colour Bar, Low wages and discriminating laws’. 1956 N. Mandela in Liberation June 7 A numerical disparity which is bound to have a decisive bearing on the final outcome of the present struggle to smash the colour-bar. 1971 Rand Daily Mail 31 May 12 The industrial colour bar puts a brake on industry and affects the prosperity of all races in the republic. 2002 M. Lynch Mining in World Hist. v. 259 The attempted removal of the Colour Bar struck at the very foundation of the white man's position in this tiered society. Compounds General attributive, esp. in colour bar law.In early use in sense 2. ΚΠ 1922 Internat. Rev. Missions 11 252 The system of artificial colour-bar laws with exploitation of the black man's sweat and blood is already producing a deep but quiet feeling of resentment in the black man's heart. 1926 M. Nathan S. Afr. from Within 183 The mines now employed coloured men on engine-driving, which was one of the occupations forbidden by the colour-bar regulation. 1944 Manifesto ANC Youth League in N. Mandela Struggle is my Life (1986) ii. i. 14 The Colour Bar Act which shuts Africans from skilled trades etc., thereby blocked their way to Civilisation via these channels. 1959 Mod. Law. Rev. 22 702 The hotting-up of the colour-bar controversy. 1961 P. Mason Common Sense about Race iv. iii. 155 South Africa, the most extreme example of a colour bar country. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 15 A series of landmark court cases had undermined the colour bar laws that kept negroes in a subordinate position. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869 |
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