Meanings
- not comparableHighly or excessively racialized.
Why may this hyperracialized identity have congealed in the late colonial period?
2014, Mitra Sharafi, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3114 more examples
[…] affirmative action has been oversimplified, politicized, hyperracialized, and "blackened" by whitestream American political and popular culture.
2008, Curtis Stokes, Race and Human Rights, MSU Press, →ISBN[Someone] writing in a hyperracialized genre who longed for acceptance by the white literary establishment—was hardly an authentic source for the real history of the antebellum South. He wasn't a real black person, wasn't a real Southerner […]
2013, Paul Outka, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBNNew to this context were the rationalities that shaped Atlantic slavery as a coherent enterprise – it became a hyperracialized form of commerce.
2015, Sylvester A. Johnson, African American Religions, 1500–2000, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89The show paints a complex and contradictory portrait of Black female sexuality that is simultaneously unwieldy and easily consumed, hyperracialized and deracialized, unique and universal, aggressive and diffident.
2015, Trimiko Melancon, Joanne M. Braxton, Black Female Sexualities, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN
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