colour bar
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colour bar
discrimination against people of a different race, esp as practised by Whites against Blacks
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
colour bar
the systematic or institutionalized restriction on access to resources or social opportunities in which the basis of DISCRIMINATION is determined by socially established criteria of racial origin, especially criteria established by ‘whites’ and applied to ‘blacks’.Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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