Racial vs Racialize - What's the difference?
racial | racialize |
To categorize or treat in racial terms.
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As an adjective racial
is of or relating to a race or a people.As a verb racialize is
to categorize or treat in racial terms.racialize
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Alternative forms
*racialiseVerb
(racializ)citation
- 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.
