exclusionist
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8.2
- noun
- /ɪkˈskluːʒənɪst/
- Offensive
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exclusionista
- Actually, a greater variety of witnesses beyond mere Chinese exclusionists helped the Committee define the problems of Chinese immigrants.
- Chinese exclusionists
Examples
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The group's exclusionist stance made it difficult for diverse perspectives to be heard and included.
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Perhaps we might better describe Winter's schemas as "exclusionist" and "dominationist" rather than by the social constructs of race and gender.
Academic text (2010) -
The most forceful ripostes to the nativists, New Humanists, and cultural exclusionists before the war came from Randolph Bourne.
Academic text (1992) -
Finding that these varied Chinese exclusionists all emphasized the sexual danger Chinese immigrants posed to white women, she shows how these representations helped form a bond of whiteness (n16).
Academic text (2003) -
And so was the life of this exiled West Indian child who, like many others of his time, reinvented for us a new form of being, a new Caribbeanity, not the provincially limited one of pseudo-bourgeois exclusionists.
Fiction book (1997) -
The report of the Special Committee, which earlier scholars have regarded as nothing more than a self-evident manifesto of Chinese exclusionists, offers a strategic source to critically examine these interconnected constructions.
Academic text (2003) -
The exclusionist policies of the organization limited membership to only a few selected individuals.
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In discussions about immigration, some people adopt exclusionist views that reject newcomers.
Synonyms
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7.1
A person who unfairly dislikes people from other groups
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9.8
A person who supports keeping people of different races separate
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8.7
A person who supports only their own group and ignores outsiders
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8.8
Keeping membership limited to a small chosen group
A person or thing that keeps others out
A person who supports separating people by race
How Exclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
An exclusionist comes from the parts ex- 'out' and clude 'shut', just like in close and include. So an exclusionist is a person who wants to 'shut out' certain people from a place or group.