racialize

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Etymology

From racial +‎ -ize.

Verb

racialize (third-person singular simple present racializes, present participle racializing, simple past and past participle racialized)

  1. To categorize or treat in racial terms.
    • 2007 May 2, Alan Schwarz, “Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls”, in New York Times:
      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.
    • 1902 March 8, “Literature”, in The Athenænum, number 3880, page 299:
      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 racialized.
    • 1918, A. M. Trawick, “The Play Life of Negro Boys and Girls”, in James E. McCulloch, editor, Southern Sociological Congress, page 356:
      As a race, negroes sing well and dance well, but they have made no distinct contribution to the play-life of nations. It is a matter of no little significance that the negro, while he has been singing his own melodies into the heats of all nations, has yet no folk-games, no race, pageants, no adequate rhythmic movements to accompany his own music. His games are pitiful imitations. The dance, to the degree he has racialized it, is not among the achievements he is proud to claim.

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  • racialize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.