racialization means 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. Lexicurio rates it Workaday — a strength score of 4 out of 100.
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RACIALIZATION — [Noun] The act or process of ascribing racial identities or characteristics to a person, group, or social practice. From racialize ("to categorize or treat in racial terms") + -ation ("action or process"), or racial ("pertaining to race") + -ization ("process of making or becoming"). Unlike "racialism" (which preaches hierarchy) or "ethnicization" (which traffics in culture), racialization is the silent alchemy that transmutes phenotype into destiny, a name into a threat, a neighborhood into a ghetto. It is the census box that forces a choice, the assumption that a surname carries inherent meaning, the way a child learns to sort faces before they can spell their own name—a fiction so relentlessly enforced it becomes fact.
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- 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.