de jure segregation
- noun
- /deɪ ˈjʊrɪ ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən/
- Formal
:
segregación de jure
- In 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, unanimously using its equitable power to overturn de jure segregation in American schools as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Examples
-
Disturbing local autonomy over education would be especially unwarranted, in the Court's view, because the district court found evidence of intentional racial discrimination only within the Detroit school system; there was no evidence that neighboring suburban jurisdictions committed any acts of de jure segregation.
Academic text (2016) -
Even after the demise of slavery, the sharecropping system and the ruthless exploitation inherent in de jure segregation hobbled African Americans.
Academic text (2008) -
The elimination of de jure segregation and of malapportionment, however, enabled the state governments to become more representative and responsible.
Academic text (1993) -
The figure for this intervention was "de jure" segregation, where state and local government mandated and enforced a regime of racialized apartheid.
Academic text (2017) -
As historian Allison Dorsey explained: "Exorbitant rents rather than de jure segregation established the pattern of black settlement in Atlanta."
Academic text (2010) -
In the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that de jure segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
-
Many activists fought against de jure segregation, believing that laws enforcing racial separation were unjust.
-
The civil rights movement focused on ending de jure segregation, which was imposed by government laws rather than by social practices.
Antonyms
1
8.0
Separation of people into different schools or neighborhoods that happens without a law
How Legal
- Formal
1
4.9
- Formal
- Offensive
18
5.3
1
8.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
de + jure + segregation
“De jure” is a borrowed Latin legal phrase meaning ‘by law’ and is not analyzable via ordinary English composition patterns; the noun ‘segregation’ makes the overall meaning clear if the phrase ‘de jure’ is known. Because the expression is compositional only for learners who know the Latin components (which B1 learners typically do not), its interpretability is limited but partially recoverable from context and the known noun, so it is not fully transparent nor fully idiomatic.
Etymology
De jure segregation comes from the words de jure ('by law') and segregation ('separating people'). Imagine official signs or rules that tell different groups to use different schools or doors — those separations are set by law. So the term means separation that is made or kept by law, not just by custom.