racialized
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of racialize
adj
Influenced or determined by race.
adj
Divided and segregated along the boundaries of race.
adj
Othered; of color; considered as having a race, as contrasted with white people when considered as not having a race.
Example Sentences
- "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 knowledge, the latter by both a will to conceal its mechanisms and its own will to power"."
- "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."
- "His [Oscar from Shark Tale] blackness is found not only in his accent and place of residence, but also in his mannerisms, behavior, and jewelry (that is, "bling"), which are highly racialized signifiers."
- "Meaney demonstrates that in Australia, too, a prior emphasis on settler rights and constitutional principles gave way to a more racialized conception of Britishness from roughly mid-century."
- "That murkiness is important: some racialized ideas about suicide become so successfully naturalized that their origins seem to come from everywhere and nowhere. Today, some foundational assumptions live on intact (for example, the idea that native people "preferred" suicide), […]"
- "Thus somatic Feeling is not only racialized, but individualized, and moreover diversified in every individual, and according to successive Periods of Life."
Inflected Forms
more racialized (comparative)
most racialized (superlative)