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date: 07 December 2024

internal colonialism 

Source:
A Dictionary of Human Geography
Author(s):

Alisdair Rogers,

Noel Castree,

Rob Kitchin

The exercise of *colonialism within, as opposed to beyond, the boundaries of a country. The term was first popularized by Latin American development economists to describe unequal relations within countries. It was widely adopted by African-American and Mexican-American scholars and activists in the 1960s to describe the institutional nature of racism within the USA, particularly in the form of spatial segregation and legal exclusion. Harold Cruse likened ghettos to domestic colonies, while Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales compared southwestern USA to a European colony. In the 1970s, political sociologist Michael Hechter applied the concept to Britain’s Celtic peripheries.... ...

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