deracination
Noun
Meaning
the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
to move something from its natural environment
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displacement
excision
extirpation
movement
translation
shift
drawing
removal
withdrawal
elimination
extraction
abolition
excavation
negation
extermination
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Examples
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.