separatism
noun
sep·a·rat·ism
ˈse-p(ə-)rə-ˌti-zəm 
: a belief in, movement for, or state of separation (such as schism, secession, or segregation)
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Some Black critics, including W. E. B. Du Bois, denounced his Black separatist views and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan, who shared Garvey's goal of racial separatism.
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Delano Massey, Axios, 4 Jan. 2025
Their son Ben, one of the four pastors—two men, two women—who succeeded them, described the church’s strategy as invasive separatism.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Once shunned at the G20 summit in 2014 after his annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine and his stoking of separatism in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Putin was the man to speak to a year later.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Turkey Turkey supported some opposition groups and later began military operations in northern Syria, mainly to curb Kurdish separatism and prevent Kurdish forces from gaining too much power on its border.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Delano Massey, Axios, 4 Jan. 2025
Their son Ben, one of the four pastors—two men, two women—who succeeded them, described the church’s strategy as invasive separatism.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Once shunned at the G20 summit in 2014 after his annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine and his stoking of separatism in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Putin was the man to speak to a year later.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Turkey Turkey supported some opposition groups and later began military operations in northern Syria, mainly to curb Kurdish separatism and prevent Kurdish forces from gaining too much power on its border.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Separatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/separatism. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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