Legally enforced segregation

Date and country of first publication

1985
South Africa

Definition

Legally enforced segregation refers to the system of laws and regulations that require the separation of individuals or groups based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or religion. This form of segregation was commonly practiced in the United States during the Jim Crow era, where laws mandated racial segregation in public facilities, schools, housing, and other areas of society. This system institutionalized discrimination and inequality, and was eventually abolished through the Civil Rights Movement and legal challenges to segregation laws.

Related segregation forms

Legally enforced segregation is frequently discussed in the literature with the following segregation forms:

residential segregation

This visualization is based on the study The Multidisciplinary Landscape of Segregation Research.

For the complete network of interrelated segregation forms, please refer to:

• First year of publication

• Louvain clusters

• Betweenness centrality

• Disciplines in which segregation forms first emerged (Scopus database).

Legally enforced segregation appears in the following literature

Swartz L. (1985). Issues for cross cultural psychiatric research in South Africa. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 9(1), 59-74. Kluwer Academic Publishers.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00048537

Lemon A. (2011). Residential Segregation: Apartheid. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 111-120. Elsevier.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00088-6