anticolonialism

American  

[an-tee-kuh-loh-nee-uh-liz-uhm, an-tahy-] / ˌæn ti kəˈloʊ ni əˌlɪz əm, ˌæn taɪ- /

noun

1. opposition to colonialism.

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Other Word Forms

• anticolonialist noun

Etymology

Origin of anticolonialism

anticolonial + -ism

Example Sentences

Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.

From Los Angeles Times

The late, Palestinian Christian-born scholar of anticolonialism wrote several influential volumes on conflicts around the world, including a memoir, “Out of Place.”

From Los Angeles Times

However, another driving force is anticolonialism.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Mitchell joined the Communist Party in 1946, when she was just 16, and over her long career worked at the intersection of issues that have come to define the left’s agenda for the last 50 years, including feminism, civil rights, police violence, economic inequality and anticolonialism.

From New York Times

They sought to apply the lessons of anticolonialism to the US.

From The Guardian