exclusionism

American  

[ik-skloo-zhuh-niz-uhm] / ɪkˈsklu ʒəˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the principle, policy, or practice of exclusion, as from rights or privileges.

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Other Word Forms

• exclusioner noun
• exclusionist noun

Etymology

Origin of exclusionism

First recorded in 1840–50; exclusion + -ism

Example Sentences

At the same time, as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to fuel a national reckoning, Mehretu is being showcased at one of the many art institutions being held accountable for an entrenched history of white male exclusionism.

From New York Times

Our acceptance is that the passing away of exclusionism is a phenomenon of the twentieth century: that gods of the twentieth century will sustain our notions be they ever so unwashed and frowsy.

From Project Gutenberg

The archaeologists have jumped from one conclusion to another, like the "rapid chamois" we read of a while ago, to account for vitrified forts, always restricted by the commandment that unless their conclusions conformed to such tenets as Exclusionism, of the System, they would be excommunicated.

From Project Gutenberg

But now they're negatives, or they're out of harmony— If we are in harmony with a new dominant, or the spirit of a new era, in which Exclusionism must be overthrown; if we have data of many obscurations that have occurred, not only upon the moon, but upon our own earth, as convincing of vast intervening bodies, usually invisible, as is any regularized, predicted eclipse.

From Project Gutenberg

I mean "primarily" all that opposes Exclusionism— That Development or Progress or Evolution is Attempt to Positivize, and is a mechanism by which a positive existence is recruited—that what we call existence is a womb of infinitude, and is itself only incubatory—that eventually all attempts are broken down by the falsely excluded.

From Project Gutenberg