anti-racialization

noun

Activities or policies in opposition to racist distinctions.

Meanings

nounanti-racialization (uncountable)
  1. uncountableActivities or policies in opposition to racist distinctions.

    This normalization of the English, what I have referred to previously as the anti-racialization of the English, did not occur through a stable construction of race.

    2013, Ayanna Thompson, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage, →ISBN, page 119
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    Asian American cultural nationalism should not be conflated or confused with some of its most valid and powerful social activist trajectories, such as anti-racialization, working class grass roots politics and the empowerment of minority students in higher education.

    2002 June, L Yang, “Theorizing Asian America: On Asian American and Postcolonial Asian Diasporic Women Intellectuals”, in Journal of Asian American Studies, volume 5, number 2

    Rather, she thinks that Dictée's politics does not need to be separated from a class politics from the outset, because she sees a cultural politics of anti-racialization as an ideal alternative to neocolonial capitalism.

    2014 December, Dongho Cha, “Wishing for a Home: Race, Class, and Global Capitalism in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée and Se-Hŭi Cho's A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf”, in MLN, volume 129, number 5

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