MEANING
The process of assigning racial meaning or categories to people, practices or social issues.
Use it for
analyzing how a group comes to be viewed racially; examining racial meanings attached to social problems; distinguishing racial categorization from a biological explanation; describing how exclusion operates through racial framingNames the process of treating people or issues through racial categories rather than assuming those categories are fixed natural explanations. Writing functions: Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- racialization of poverty
- processes of racialization
- racialization of a group
On the page
The analysis traces the racialization of poverty in campaign speeches rather than treating the association as self-evident.
Different patterns of racialization shaped how migrant communities were represented in the press.
Word forms
- Base
- racialization
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Usage notes
Usually uncountable as a process; racializations can refer to distinct instances or forms. UK racialisation is an alias. Register: academic. Commonness: moderately common in social science and humanities (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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