color linenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈkʌl.ə ˌlaɪn/us/ˈkʌl.ɚ ˌlaɪn/US US also color bar, UK colour bara social and legal system in which people of different races are separated and not given the same rights and opportunities
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Racial issues
- alien
- anti-Semitic
- anti-Semitism
- color bar
- color prejudice
- ethnic cleansing
- ethnic minority
- foreign
- foreigner
- ghetto
- institutionalized racism
- nativism
- NF
- non-racist
- Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Arabism
- racist
- Uncle Tom
- white flight
- white supremacy
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Examples from literature
- He said he was very much opposed to the color line in politics.
- He saw, however, that commerce recognized no color line.
- If such a statement is wholly true, the color line can hardly be justified, but must be regarded, as it is now the case sometimes, as merely the expression of prejudice and ignorance.
- The uplift of women is, next to the problem of the color line and the peace movement, our greatest modern cause.
- This difference has largely disappeared, but some vestiges of the color line remain.