problematize

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I know there are some white people, who may be black, culturally & phenotypically, as well as there are some blacks that may be white, culturally & phenotypically, as well as know there are innumerable categories that complicate and problematize what I say here.

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  1. To propose problems. Tip. Hear him problematize. Pru. Bless us, what 's that? Tip. Or syllogize, elenchize. B. Jonson, New Inn, ii. 2.

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  • In exploring the cultural dynamics of globalization, the book investigates the interrelationship between globalization and culture, seeking in the process to problematize both concepts. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I know there are some white people, who may be black, culturally & phenotypically, as well as there are some blacks that may be white, culturally & phenotypically, as well as know there are innumerable categories that complicate and problematize what I say here. —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • He says he wants to "problematize discourse, to make it more complicated" by presenting characters that can't be reduced to a stereotype. —  PopMatters
  • I have all the right to problematize any issue that you take up from another (here caste-gender) political perspective. —  Kafila
  • Although, in recent years there have been several advances in critical applied linguistics which have attempted to problematize the ideological underpinnings of language practices, there have in parallel been resistances mounted on the part of traditional applied linguistics that adamantly oppose any form of coming to terms with the political and ideological nature of the discipline. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. from Greek πρόβλημα(τ-), a problem, + -ize.
 

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