colour barnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈkʌl.ə ˌbɑː/us/ˈkʌl.ɚ ˌbɑːr/UK US color bar, color linea 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 line
- 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
- Besides, she was gradually realising the existence of the "colour bar," illiberal as she considered it to be.