Legal segregation

Date and country of first publication

1993
United States

Definition

Legal segregation refers to the practice of separating people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, or other characteristics as mandated by laws or government policies. This form of segregation was prevalent in the United States prior to the Civil Rights movement, with laws enforcing separate facilities, services, and accommodations for different racial groups. Legal segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Synonyms

The following terms are synonymous with legal segregation:

legalised segregation; legalized segregation; legislated segregation; legislative segregation.

References and literature addressing this segregation form under these synonymous terms can be found below.

Related segregation forms

Legal segregation is frequently discussed in the literature with the following segregation forms:

racial segregation, school segregation, residential segregation, housing segregation, jim crow segregation, historical segregation, de facto 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).

Notes

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Legal segregation appears in the following literature

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Anderson G.M., Halcoussis D. (1996). The political economy of legal segregation: Jim crow and racial employment patterns. Economics and Politics, 8(1), 1-15. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0343.1996.tb00117.x

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Jackson Jr. J.P. (2). Blind law and powerless science: The American Jewish Congress, the NAACP, and the scientific case against discrimination, 1945 1950. ISIS, 91(1), 89-116. University of Chicago Press.https://doi.org/10.1086/384627

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Larsen E.L. (2003). Integrating segregated urban landscapes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historical Archaeology, 37(3), 111-123. Society for Historical Archaeology.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376615

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