ERASURE Definition & Meaning

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erasure

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noun

an act or instance of erasing.
a place where something has been erased; a spot or mark left after erasing:
You can't sign a contract with so many erasures in it.
1. the exclusion of a minority group or group member from the historical record, or from the discussion of current events: black victim erasure in the crime-bill debate.
  erasure of female scientists from textbooks;
  black victim erasure in the crime-bill debate.
2. the replacement or whitewashing of a minority character or group with a member or members of the dominant cultural group in fictional representations of historical events:
  minority erasure in film.
3. the denial of an individual’s or group’s minority identity, or the misidentification of a minority group member: cultural erasure and white identity among Chicanos.
  trans-erasure issues in the LGBT community;
  cultural erasure and white identity among Chicanos.

erasure

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noun

the act or an instance of erasing
the place or mark, as on a piece of paper, where something has been erased

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Origin of erasure¹

First recorded in 1725–35; erase + -ure

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In these first days of his second term in office, Trump and crew have taken secrecy to a new level, replacing it with a broad policy of erasure and invisibility.

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Even more significant, this erasure places the Trump administration in a grim tradition, that of authoritarian regimes eager to control knowledge and rewrite history.

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Adra and his neighbors initially have misgivings about opening up to Abraham, an outsider, but eventually a bond develops as we grasp the magnitude of this erasure of Palestinian villages.

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The faculty council wrote that UCLA’s administrative communications “distort and misrepresent the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and thereby contribute to the racist and dehumanizing erasure of Palestinian daily reality.”

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