Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To differentiate or categorize according to race.
- transitive verb To impose a racial character or context on.
- transitive verb To perceive or experience in racial terms.
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- verb To categorize or treat in
racial terms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps less flagrant yet equally divisive are the media outlets who only too willingly "racialize" stories for increased ratings or readership.
Archive 2008-11-01 gay person of color 2008
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Perhaps less flagrant yet equally divisive are the media outlets who only too willingly "racialize" stories for increased ratings or readership.
Dutch on Dutch Homophobia, Right Wing Finger Pointing, Divide and Conquer Media Strategies gay person of color 2008
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| Reply | Permalink sigh. black people have voted for white people since we've been allowed to vote. and hillary had black folks 'support until they fully started to check obama out, assessed her negatives and heard bill's attempt to "racialize" the race in south carolina. also, there's nothing wrong with voting FOR someone, as opposed to voting AGAINST someone, a la the white racists who say outright that they're not voting for a black man. and surely you're not defending that, are you? hmmm, i bet more black folks have voted for white candidates than vice versa. care to prove me wrong?
Oregon Exit Polls: Obama Handily Beat Hillary Among Whites, No-College, Less-Than-$50,000 Voters 2009
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These moves and other recent government proposals could further racialize our housing and credit markets by effectively disqualifying many lower-income borrowers, including a large share of borrowers of color.
Dedrick Muhammad: Homeownership Should Not Become Impossible Dream Dedrick Muhammad 2011
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I am a black person and I think that is truly unfair to racialize that incident.
McCain to highlight differences with Bush in New Orleans 2008
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What a great guy, causing a major slur on a past president who did so much for black people and now -- once the damage is done -- "generously" appointing himself as Bill Clinton's judge and benevolently saying that he doesn't "think" that Clinton was "deliberately" trying to racialize the campaign.
Obama: I Don't Think Clintons Made "Deliberate Effort" To Racialize Campaign 2009
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In his interview with Fox News Sunday, which is airing right now, Obama said flatly that he didn't think there's been a deliberate effort by the Clintons to racialize the campaign.
Obama: I Don't Think Clintons Made "Deliberate Effort" To Racialize Campaign 2009
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Let me be as clear as possible here: Yes, the Clintons did racialize the campaign in some ways.
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In his interview with Fox News Sunday, which is airing right now, Obama said flatly that he didn't think there's been a deliberate effort by the Clintons to racialize the campaign.
Fox News 2009
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Well, how very generous of Obama to say that the Clinton's haven't made any "deliberate effort" to racialize the campaign, considering that Obama was the one who played the race card by jumping on the "blame Hillary for belittling Martin Luther King" bandwagon at the beginning of the campaign.
Obama: I Don't Think Clintons Made "Deliberate Effort" To Racialize Campaign 2009
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