| 单词 | grand apartheid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrand apartheid grand apartheid n. [compare Afrikaans algehele apartheid, lit. ‘total apartheid’, grootapartheid, lit. ‘big apartheid’] South African (now historical) a form of apartheid, especially prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s, which involved comprehensive racial segregation and measures such as the removal of black people from ‘white’ areas and the creation of separate black homelands; cf. petty apartheid n. at petty adj. and n. Compounds 1a. ΚΠ 1964 Des Moines (Iowa) Reg. 16 June 8/3 By contrast with ‘petty apartheid’, which consists largely of Jim Crow laws and practices, ‘grand apartheid’ aims at permanent partition of South Africa between ‘black’ and ‘white’ areas. 1988 N. Gordimer in D. D. Honoré Trevor Huddleston 8 If our professional politicians had had his [sc. Huddleston's] intelligence they would not have behind them today the failed Verwoerdian ‘grand apartheid’. 2012 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 22 July (Opinion & Editorial section) In the shadow of a world war against fascism, came the cynical violence of grand apartheid, effectively prohibiting the majority from obtaining an economic or social foothold in a society preserved for whites. < as lemmas |
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