outsegregate

outsegregate

English

Etymology

out- +‎ segregate

Verb

outsegregate (third-person singular simple present outsegregates, present participle outsegregating, simple past and past participle outsegregated)

1. (transitive) To promote or follow a more segregationist policy than.
   • 1968, Lionel Lokos, House Divided: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King (page 216)

     […] not all Chicago Negroes were exactly pining away for integration. Certainly the Black Muslims, with their passion for a Negro apartheid, were championing a separatist movement that practically outsegregated the segregationists.

   • 2005, F. Philip Rice, ‎Kim Gale Dolgin, The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture (page 56)

     These families tried to isolate their children from racial discrimination as much as possible by outsegregating the White segregationists.

Derived terms

• outseg