Herrenvolk

[her-uhn-fawlk]

noun

German.

plural

Herrenvölker 

1. master race.

Herrenvolk

/ ˈhɛrənfɔlk /

noun

1. See master race

Example Sentences

At first it was what's called "Herrenvolk democracy," with limited or no access to real power for non-Europeans until they managed to secure it, one way or another.

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Unfortunately, such Herrenvolk white supremacist politics are not an outlier in American history.

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Writing in the Guardian, civil rights law professor Carol Anderson summarizes the Republican Party and movement conservatism’s commitment to racial authoritarianism and what has been called "Herrenvolk democracy":

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Trump's vision of America is a white Christian male-dominated Herrenvolk democracy.

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You make a critical intervention: America has been a racial democracy, or Herrenvolk democracy, for most of its existence.

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