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How to use racialize in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb

Racialize means to categorize or treat in racial terms. Example: “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.”

Examples of racialize by meaning

verbTo categorize or treat in racial terms.

  • 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.2007 May 2, Alan Schwarz, “Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls”, in New York Times

verbTo adapt or alter to conform with the ethnic qualities of a particular race.

  • 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.1902 March 8, “Literature”, in The Athenænum, number 3880, page 299
  • The dance, to the degree he has racialized it, is not among the achievements he is proud to claim.1918, A. M. Trawick, “The Play Life of Negro Boys and Girls”, in James E. McCulloch, editor, Southern Sociological Congress, page 356

More sentences with racialize

  • South Africa is not more racialized than China; Sweden is not less racialized than the United States.2009, Zeus Leonardo, Race, Whiteness, and Education, page 38. From the entry racialized
  • The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, page 87. From the entry body
  • Ablenormativity, and ableism more broadly, are racialized in multiple ways.2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, page 11. From the entry ablenormativity
  • Importantly, the linguistic interpretations of white listening subjects are part of a broader, racialized semiotics of white perceiving subjects.2017 September 11, Jonathan Rosa, Nelson Flores, “Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective”, in Language in…. From the entry raciolinguistic
  • Or maybe public opinion became more racialized because the economic downturn pitted social groups against one another for scarce resources.2016, Michael Tesler, Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama Era, page 42. From the entry racialized
  • Tweets often include the use of racialized hashtags referred to as “Blacktags” that help broadcast these performances across the Twitter universe.2016, Kofi Lomotey, Pamela Braboy Jackson, Muna Adem, People of Color in the United States. From the entry blacktag
  • If there are possibilities for rupturing the fault lines of "dysconsciousness," there are also possibilities for reinscribing racialized discourses and practices.2005, Michael W. Apple, Jane Kenway, Michael Singh, editors, Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, & Politics, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry dysconsciousness
  • The contemporary emotional economy of racialized slavery in the Atlantic world is prolonged through the carceral industries that hyperpolice Black emotions and terrorize Black lives.2021, Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, She is Weeping, page 251. From the entry hyperpolice
  • While it represented a symbolic break from the “whiteout” on the US presidency, it was also, obviously, the most racialized campaign in American history.2012, H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S., →ISBN. From the entry whiteout
  • For instance, not only is Oscar racialized as black, we can also see an ethnicization of race whereby Oscar is constructed as a black American.2010, C. Richard King, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Animating Difference, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry ethnicization
  • Assimilationist ideology of late has been refurbished by a neoliberal policy of multiculturalism, affording us a schizoid if pragmatic optic to handle this racializing dilemma.2002, E. San Juan Jr., Racism and Cultural Studies, →ISBN. From the entry superminority
  • We live not only in a racialized society, but also in a class system, a patriarchal system, and one of straight supremacy, able-bodied supremacy, and Christian hegemony.2011 September 1, Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Catapult, →ISBN. From the entry straight supremacy

Meaning of racialize

  1. verb To categorize or treat in racial terms.
  2. verb To adapt or alter to conform with the ethnic qualities of a particular race.

Full definition of racialize

Questions about racialize in a sentence

How do you use racialize in a sentence?
Racialize is used as a verb. For example: “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.”
What is a short sentence with racialize?
“Ablenormativity, and ableism more broadly, are racialized in multiple ways.”
What does racialize mean?
Racialize means to categorize or treat in racial terms.

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