resegregationn.
/ˌriːsɛɡrᵻˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌriˌsɛɡrəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of resegregating a person or thing; the fact of being resegregated. Also: an instance of this.
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1923 Daily Mail 24 May 6 With the upheaval of the war, when..the population was in a state of flux, resegregation probably became more rapid and accentuated.
1958 L. Kuper et al. Durban v. 142 This ‘natural’ ecological pattern of incomplete segregation is now to be replaced by a planned resegregation.
1976 Time 27 Sept. 57/3 Another pattern of resegregation occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes.
1998 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. a10/3 Despite the anxieties among whites—and some blacks, who fear resegregation—the experience of racial change in the suburbs has not brought a decline in property values.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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