outsegregate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ segregate

Verb[edit]

outsegregate (third-person singular simple present outsegregates, present participle outsegregating, simple past and past participle outsegregated)

  1. (transitive) To promote or follow a more segregationist policy than.
    • 1968, Lionel Lokos, House Divided: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, page 216:
      [] not all Chicago Negroes were exactly pining away for integration. Certainly the Black Muslims, with their passion for a Negro apartheid, were championing a separatist movement that practically outsegregated the segregationists.
    • 2005, F. Philip Rice, Kim Gale Dolgin, The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture, page 56:
      These families tried to isolate their children from racial discrimination as much as possible by outsegregating the White segregationists.

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