racialization

especially British, ra·cial·i·sa·tion

[rey-shuh-lahy-zey-shuhn]

noun

1. an act or instance of viewing and interacting with people from a racist perspective, or of being viewed and interacted with in this way.

   The assumption that terrorist acts are perpetrated mainly by Islamists is part of the racialization of Muslim and Arab-looking people.

2. the act or process of causing an institution, system, area of activity, etc., to be influenced or controlled by a racist perspective.

   Housing reform is another area that needs targeting, including measures to eliminate the racialization of lending practices.

Word History and Origins

Origin of racialization¹

First recorded in 1915–20; racial ( def. ) + -ization ( def. )

Example Sentences

Not leaning on any one interpretive framework that might exclude relevant factors, Bonhomme considers the highly intersecting and variable impact of colonialism, racialization, gender roles and attitudes towards the human body, and, most strikingly perhaps, class, specifically in its intersection with race.

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One of the things I really appreciated in this book is the combination of class, which is something that is so rarely frankly discussed in North American discourse, with racialization and gender issues.

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In fact, the slavery question is a question of labor, and it's a question of racialization of a particular form, a set of laborers who didn't have much of a choice or agency outside of escaping or attempting to escape, or in some cases, inflicting physical harm to the body and the self, or suicide.

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Over the past few centuries this process of misrepresentation of biology was, and still is, used to deny women rights and to justify legal and societal misogyny and inequity, to justify slavery, racialization, racism and to enforce multiple forms of discrimination and bias.

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Our survey found significant evidence of the racialization of anti-abortion politics on the American right: More than a third of Trump voters embrace white supremacist values.

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