Racialized
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of racialize form-of, participle, past
- 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 knowledge, the latter by both a will to conceal its mechanisms and its own will to power"."
- 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."
- 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."
- 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 banished"
Example
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