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anti-racialization

anti-racialization noun: activities or policies in opposition to racist distinctions.

Noun

anti-racialization (uncountable)

  1. Activities or policies in opposition to racist distinctions.
    • Asian American cultural nationalism should not be conflated or confused with some of its most valid and powerful social activist trajectories, such as anti-racialization, working class grass roots politics and the empowerment of minority students in higher education.2002 June, L Yang, “Theorizing Asian America: On Asian American and Postcolonial Asian Diasporic Women Intellectuals”, in Journal of Asian American Studies, volume 5, number 2
    • This normalization of the English, what I have referred to previously as the anti-racialization of the English, did not occur through a stable construction of race.2013, Ayanna Thompson, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage, →ISBN, page 119

Origin of anti-racialization

From anti- + racialization.

Questions about anti-racialization

What does anti-racialization mean?
Anti-racialization means activities or policies in opposition to racist distinctions.
What part of speech is anti-racialization?
Anti-racialization is a noun.

Words near anti-racialization in the dictionary

  1. anti-proverbs
  2. anti-Putinism
  3. anti-Putinist
  4. anti-Putinists
  5. anti-racial
  6. anti-racialization
  7. anti-racialize
  8. anti-racism
  9. anti-racist
  10. anti-racists
  11. anti-rad

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