Mandated racial segregation

Date and country of first publication

2016
United States

Definition

Mandated racial segregation refers to laws and policies that require the separation of different racial or ethnic groups in public spaces, institutions, and facilities. These laws were particularly prevalent in the United States during the Jim Crow era, where African Americans and other minority groups were legally required to use separate schools, transportation, bathrooms, and other public facilities from white Americans. These laws were enforced through legal statutes, as well as social norms and practices that upheld and perpetuated racial discrimination and inequality. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s led to the dismantling of many of these segregation laws, but the legacy of mandated racial segregation continues to impact American society to this day.

Related segregation forms

Mandated racial segregation is frequently discussed in the literature with the following segregation forms:

racial segregation, neighborhood segregation, economic 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).

Mandated racial segregation appears in the following literature

Cooper P.J. (2016). Civil rights in public service. Civil Rights in Public Service, 1-628. Taylor and Francis.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315719566

Mann B., Rogers A. (2021). Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever? Racial and Economic Isolation and Dissimilarity in Rural Black Belt Schools in Alabama*. Rural Sociology, 86(3), 523-558. Rural Sociological Society.https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12384