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What is a dispossession?

What is a dispossession? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of dispossessing someone of something.
  2. The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
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He calls attention to the way in which racism against blacks is intertwined with economic dispossession.
There is the structural violence of coerced theft and dispossession imposed by landlords.
The dispossession of the peasantry gave landlords a golden opportunity to amalgamate small plots into large farms.
Briefly, dispossession affected only pastoralists that practiced transhumance.
Faulkner's novels dealing with race and slavery return again and again to the concerns and dispossession of white male characters.
So the freedom of many white Americans depended on the dispossession of this other people.

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