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to racialize

to racialize

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To treat people or issues mainly in terms of race
  • verb
  • /ˈreɪʃəˌlaɪz/
translation icon : racializar
  • The way the media racializes certain events can influence public perception of different communities.
  • racialized immigrants
  • racialized communities
  • racialized inequity

I refuse to let you re racialize my country, my company, or myself.

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Examples

  • But if we racialize the discussion of crime, punishment and policing in America, we are playing with fire.

  • One recent African American participant, with whom I spoke, critiqued the racialized politics of the pageant as follows:

    Academic text (2005)
  • I refuse to let you re racialize my country, my company and myself.

  • I refuse to let you re racialize my country, my company, or myself.

  • We must be thoughtful about new efforts that may arise to racialize the community.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Moreover, criminal prosecutions of pregnant women are deeply racialized in the U.S.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Between 1870 and 1940, U.S. social thought and popular culture employed rhetoric that racialized European immigrants.

    Academic text (2003)
  • But immigrant saving itself proved highly racialized, as did immigrant small business in many instances.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The Hawks thus appeared in Atlanta at the intersection of national racial tumult and complicated, racialized local politics.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Put differently, Anglos racialized the "Mexican" because the perception of racial inferiority suited the needs of conquest.

    Academic text (2001)

Antonyms

To remove ideas or rules based on race from something

Surface Forms

racialize infinitive
racialized past
racialized past participle
racializing present participle
racializes third person singular

Morphology

racialize = racial (transparent) = race + al + ize

The verb 'racialize' is transparently derived from 'racial', meaning to make something related to race.

Etymology

Racialize comes from race and the ending -ize, which means 'make', as in modernize. So to racialize something is to 'make it about race' — to give a racial label or to focus on racial differences, which can lead to unfair treatment.