Apartheid

A former political/oppressive system that was officially implemented in South Africa from 1948 until 1994, to enforce racial segregation as well as political, economic, and social discrimination against people of color or anyone who was not classified as white. The word ‘apartheid’ is an Afrikaans word meaning ‘apartness.’ The term has also been used to refer to global forms of institutionalized/systemic racial and socio-economic oppression that remain prevalent in societies across the world.