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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act or process of racializing, that is, of treating (a relationship, practice, person or group) in racial terms or of constituting (that person or group) as racial or as a race.

Etymology

From racialize + -ation or racial + -ization.

Related phrases

anti-racializationdifferential racialization

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