racializev.
/ˈreɪʃəlʌɪz/, /ˈreɪʃl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈreɪʃəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To impose a racial interpretation on; to cause to become racist in attitude, behaviour, or structure; to categorize or divide according to race.
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1917 G. S. Hall Jesus I. v. 297 If John's more superficial work upon the personal consciousness consisted in taking the first step toward racializing the individual, the larger, converse work of individualizing the racial yet remained for Jesus.
1930 Month Dec. 485 A Catholic, following St. Paul, will repudiate this attempt to racialize the universal genius of Christianity.
1946 School Rev. 54 526/2 Juvenile delinquency was not confined to Negro students. Justice should not be ‘racialized’.
1987 New Yorker 13 July 65/2 The government..moved to impose its..plan of racializing and revamping every aspect of South African society.
2000 A. Moreton-Robinson Talkin' up to White Woman v. 126 White women are represented everywhere in Australian feminism, but are not racialised as whites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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