anti-racialize

verb

To act against racial identity or racism.

Meanings

verbanti-racialize (third-person singular simple present anti-racializes, present participle anti-racializing, simple past and past participle anti-racialized)

present singular third person anti-racializes · participle present anti-racializing · participle past anti-racialized · past anti-racialized · alternative antiracialize

  1. human sciencesTo act against racial identity or racism.

    Interpellating the crystal in the midst of an anti-racializing dialog, Sun Ra intimates emphasizes his power to move race from its historical determinants to rest in mystic powers.

    2007, Sue-Ellen Case, Performing Science and the Virtual, Routledge, →ISBN, page 192
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    The racializing epistemology that these plays help to codify serves to empower the white/right gaze, which implicitly normalizes and, as I will argue, anti-racializes the English gaze.

    2008, Ayanna Thompson, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage, Routledge, →ISBN, page 20

    At the same time, the prompt increase in resources and tools made available to Arab and Muslim American organizations, the intensification of anti-racializing work within civil society organizations, and the American public's increased interest in learning more about Arabs and Muslims provided a majority of the Arab Muslims interviewed in this study with a degree of optimism for the future, even though many remained concerned because of the connection they saw between social constructions of Arabs/Muslims and American foreign policy.

    2009, Louise A. Cainkar, Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11, Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 72

Origin

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