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Apartheid

Scope note

Social, political, and economic system of racial segregation, assigning rights to classes of people based on their racial background, supremacy being granted to those of white European extraction, with laws limiting the political participation and economic advancement of those of African, Asian, and mixed race.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000249198

Created

13yrs ago

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