Vertaling van "cette humiliation visait " (Frans → Engels) :

Cette première étape symbolique visait l'humiliation, puis l'assimilation.
Children were made to wear European-style clothing, and their hair was cut as soon as they arrived at school. That first symbolic stage was designed to humiliate and assimilate.

Dans ce cas précis, l'individu a été humilié, mais cette humiliation visait aussi toutes les personnes de race noire.
In this case the individual was humiliated but as well all members of his race were implicated and humiliated.