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racial | racialize |

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.

racial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a race or a people
  • the racial complexion

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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