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Meaning of settler colonialism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A form of colonialism in which colonizers seek to displace indigenous populations from their land in order to establish permanent settlements of their own.

uncountable

Examples

“It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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