hyperracialized
hyperracialized adjective: highly or excessively racialized.
Adjective
hyperracialized (not comparable)
- Highly or excessively racialized.
- […] affirmative action has been oversimplified, politicized, hyperracialized, and "blackened" by whitestream American political and popular culture.2008, Curtis Stokes, Race and Human Rights, MSU Press, →ISBN
- [Someone] writing in a hyperracialized genre who longed for acceptance by the white literary establishment—was hardly an authentic source for the real history of the antebellum South. He wasn't a real black person, wasn't a real Southerner […]2013, Paul Outka, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN
Examples of hyperracialized in a sentence
- Why may this hyperracialized identity have congealed in the late colonial period?2014, Mitra Sharafi, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 311:
- New to this context were the rationalities that shaped Atlantic slavery as a coherent enterprise – it became a hyperracialized form of commerce.2015, Sylvester A. Johnson, African American Religions, 1500–2000, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:
Questions about hyperracialized
- What does hyperracialized mean?
- Hyperracialized means highly or excessively racialized.
- How do you use hyperracialized in a sentence?
- Why may this hyperracialized identity have congealed in the late colonial period?
- What part of speech is hyperracialized?
- Hyperracialized is an adjective.
Words near hyperracialized in the dictionary
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