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color line

noun as in discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people

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The color line runs straight through every aspect of American society.

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This absence of memory is especially true for White America and its understanding, or lack thereof, of the realities of the color line and its impact on America’s past and present.

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In that way, the psychological wages of whiteness have been toxic on both sides of the color line.

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Their journeys attuned these three orchestra leaders to the subtleties and unsubtleties of America’s color lines.

"The terror of gun violence is also the terror of the color line."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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