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Facialize vs Racialize - What's the difference?

facialize | racialize |

As verbs the difference between facialize and racialize

is that facialize is (lb) to put a face to; to give a face while racialize is to categorize or treat in racial terms.

facialize

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (lb) To put a face to; to give a face.
  • * 1992 , Orientalism and cultural differences , page 30:
  • Palestinians, Arabs were facialized , given the face of Saddam Hussein,
  • * 1996 , Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies (ISBN 0415913713), page 435
  • Likewise, this trend in the public sphere to put "faces" on social problems has the paradoxical effect of making the faces generic and not individual: thus the facializing gesture that promotes identification across the spaces of alterity is, in effect, an equivocal challenge to shift the political and cultural boundaries of what will count politically as human.
  • * 2012 , Elana Shever, Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina (ISBN 0804783209), page 176:
  • * 2013 , Alessandra Raengo, On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value (ISBN 978-1-58465-975-4):
  • Collaging a woman's face on top of the original page offers Mutu the possibility to facialize the medical text.
  • (lb) To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features.
  • * 2008 , Stuart Kane, The Green Man and the Facial Machine'', in ''Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern , page 43:
  • The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon'', "face," and ''poiein , "to make" —
  • * 2013 , Seung-hoon Jeong, Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media (ISBN 1135053502), page 168
  • Second, it enables us to see landscape as facial, that is, to naturalize the face or facialize nature.
  • (lb) To give a facial
  • * 2006 September 27, "cha...@hushmail.com" (username), Hardcore indian sex, Brittney skye facial cum, Monica sweetheart enjoys slurping'', in alt.sex.nfs, ''Usenet :
  • Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized
  • * 2010 , Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (ISBN 0307756432), page 114:
  • a manicure and, if time permits, a pedicure. I'm lying on the elevated table in one of the private rooms waiting for Helga, the skin technician, to facialize me.
  • * (rfdate), Steve Coney, Gardening With Napalm (ISBN 1467947393), page 102:
  • Yeah, you blew it with America 's sweetheart, but guys like us really only want to deflower, defile, sodomize, and facialize a good-girl sweetheart anyway.

    See also

    * faciality * facialness

    racialize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *racialise

    Verb

    (racializ)
  • To categorize or treat in racial terms.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 2, author=Alan Schwarz, title=Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=There’s a growing consensus that a large proportion of racialized decisions is not driven by any conscious race discrimination, but that it is often just driven by unconscious, or subconscious, attitudes. }}
  • * 2010 , C. Richard King, ?Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, ?Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Animating Difference (ISBN 0742560813), page 41:
  • For instance, not only is Oscar racialized as black, we can also see an ethnicization of race whereby Oscar is constructed as a black American.

    Derived terms

    * racialization

    See also

    * ethnize, ethnization * ethnicize, ethnicization