reassertion
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
reassertion (plural reassertions)
- the act of reasserting; a second or subsequent assertion
- 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:
- […] 1919, a time when African American hopes for a just future following their service in World War I were dashed by violent reassertions of white supremacy, including the efflorescence and expansion of the KKK into the Midwestern and northwestern U.S.
Translations[edit]
the act of reasserting; a second or subsequent assertion
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