racialize

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racialize

verb racializes · racializing · racialized · racialise

  1. To categorize or treat in racial terms. 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.
  2. To adapt or alter to conform with the ethnic qualities of a particular race. If Mr. [W. B.] Yeats had not broken clean away from his Irish forerunners his poetry would not have delighted anybody save the resolute patriot. We say this not because we wish to rob Ireland of her legitimate glory, but because we think her glory will be dimmed if Irish poetry be too selfishly raci

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@misc{racialize_2026,
  title = {racialize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/racialize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}