racialized

Adjective

racialized (comparative more racialized, superlative most racialized)

1. Connected to race or a specific race.
   • Writing on African Americans, Abdul Jan Mohamed suggests that "Whereas bourgeois sexuality is a product of an empiricist, analytic, and proliferating discursivity, racialized sexuality is the product of a stereotypic, symbolizing , and condensing discursivity; the former is driven by a will to...2000, Eithne Luibheid, Racialized Immigrant Women's Sexualities, page 148
   • Yet even seemingly secular colonial notions such as that of “a civilizing mission" —or its more racialized version, “the white man's burden" — or the 19th-century U.S. conviction of a "manifest destiny" have deep religious roots.2002, American Anthologist, page 768
2. Influenced or determined by race.
   • Thus somatic Feeling is not only racialized, but individualized, and moreover diversified in every individual, and according to successive Periods of Life.1905, Denton J. Snider, Feeling Psychologically Treated, and Prolegomena to Psychology, St. Louis: Sigma Publishing, page 93
   • […] tone and content of the discourse of manifest destiny shifted during the first half of the nineteenth century, becoming more racialized as the century progressed, as whites, especially white men, imagined themselves increasingly besieged by the sexualized presence and political aggressiveness...2001, William F. Pinar, The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America, page 274
3. Divided and segregated along the boundaries of race.
   • In a culture that was becoming increasingly more racialized, as music and entertainment industries were insisting on racial difference, Europe had to be true to the “spirit of a race” while creating a type of music that could appeal to a refined and "proper" white audience.2003, Dave Gilbert, James Reese Europe, page 16
   • Though he consistently avoided systematic taxonomy of the human populations of Oceania, Prichard's division into classes became steadily more racialized.2008, Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard, Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940, page 133
4. Othered; of color; considered as having a race, as contrasted with white people when considered as not having a race.
   • This means that by disallowing legitimate claims to recognize and address issues of racism that impact the daily lives of Blacks and other racialized groups, an important and essential aspect of Black humanity and existence was also banished2016 Summer, Tesla Schaeffer, “Readers Would Seek Grief: Dionne Brand's thirsty and the Textual Legibility of Trauma”, in Journal of Modern Literature, volume 39, number 4
   • In the 1980s racialized activists and scholars began the process of filling in the missing accounts of their lives and communities in Canadian histories (Bannerji 1987; Bristow 1994; Burnet 1986).2009, Racialized Migrant Women in Canada, page 5