deracialize means to treat in nonracial terms; to remove the racialization of. It carries an Arena rating of 841, earned across 114 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, deracialize ranks #2,840 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #6,739 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #7,129 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #8,901 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “deracialize” is a great word
DERACIALIZE — [Verb] To treat or consider in nonracial terms; to remove the racial character or categorization from. Formed within English from the prefix de- (expressing removal or reversal), the adjective racial, and the verb-forming suffix -ize. Unlike "deracinate," which means to uproot from one's native culture, or "assimilate," which implies adopting a dominant culture, to deracialize is the deliberate act of stripping away the racial lens. It is the administrative effort to draft a census form without a box to check, the intellectual attempt to discuss poverty as a matter of class, or the quiet work of listening to music without the biography of the composer's skin—a hopeful, often impossible, reach for a world before the world named it.
Etymology
From de- + racialize.
verb
- To treat in nonracial terms; to remove the racialization of.
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