pigmentocracy

English

Etymology

pigment +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy

Noun

pigmentocracy (countable and uncountable, plural pigmentocracies)

  1. Government by or social hierarchy of those with a certain skin tone, regardless of race or socioeconomic status.
    • 2011, Don Lemon, Transparent‎, Las Vegas: Farrah Gray, →ISBN:
      Black America used to be, and perhaps still is, a pigmentocracy, which means that the social hierarchy is based largely on colorism.

See also
  • Appendix:Forms of government
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.