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To racialize is to assign racial identity or significance to something—a group, practice, or issue—that might otherwise not be understood in racial terms.
Sociologists use it to describe how categories become marked by race: Housing policy in America has been deeply racialized.
The word often carries critical force, suggesting race is imposed rather than inherent: The debate over immigration has become increasingly racialized.
Preformed unfavorable opinion
- segregationForced separation by group
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
inequality · exclusion · supremacy · ethnic cleansing · genocide · slavery · casteism · colorism
Shared cultural heritage group
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- melaninNatural coloring compound
- complexionSkin tone, appearance
passing · colorism · one-drop rule · skin tone · self-identification · transracial
Assigning actors similar roles
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- prejudgmentOpinion formed beforehand
- pigeonholingAssigning to narrow categories
- model minorityRacialized success stereotype
stereotyping · exoticization · fetishization · tokenism · microaggression · implicit bias · overgeneralization · stigmatization
Official population count
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- blood quantumAncestral proportion for tribal enrollment
eugenics · craniology · miscegenation · antimiscegenation · mongrelization · checkbox · demographic data · categorization
Programs boosting marginalized representation
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- redistrictingRedrawing electoral boundaries
representation · reparations · desegregation · integration · diversity policy · truth and reconciliation
Collectively maintained abstraction
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- power dynamicsRelational patterns of influence
- systemic inequalityEmbedded societal unfairness
- white privilegeSystemic benefits from pallor
settler colonialism · postcolonialism · critical theory · color line
prejudice
Preformed unfavorable opinion
- segregationForced separation by group
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
redlining · inequality · exclusion · supremacy · ethnic cleansing · genocide · slavery · casteism · colorism · ghettoization
ethnicity
Shared cultural heritage group
complexion · passing · colorism · one-drop rule · skin tone · self-identification · transracial
typecasting
Assigning actors similar roles
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- prejudgmentOpinion formed beforehand
- pigeonholingAssigning to narrow categories
model minority · stereotyping · exoticization · fetishization · tokenism · microaggression · implicit bias · overgeneralization · stigmatization
census
Official population count
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
blood quantum · eugenics · craniology · miscegenation · antimiscegenation · mongrelization · checkbox · demographic data · categorization
affirmative action
Programs boosting marginalized representation
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
redistricting · representation · reparations · desegregation · integration · diversity policy · truth and reconciliation
social construct
Collectively maintained abstraction
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- power dynamicsRelational patterns of influence
- systemic inequalityEmbedded societal unfairness
white privilege · settler colonialism · postcolonialism · critical theory · color line
racializederacialize
Remove racial framing
individualize · personalize · humanize · universalize · particularize
racializederacialize
Remove racial framing
colorblind · universalize · normalize · neutralize · deracinate
racializeuniversalize
Make broadly applicable
generalize · homogenize · assimilate · integrate · unify