🌍ap world history: modern review

Ethnic segregation

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

The spatial and social separation of different ethnic and racial groups in colonial African cities, with European and immigrant communities in new areas and African populations in separate quarters or older districts.

AP course connection

Topic 6.2: 6.2 Expansion of Imperialism

Unit 6

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