simianisation

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A form of simianization — The representation of a person (usually of a foreign or minority ethnicity) as a monkey or ape.

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Meanings

nounsimianisation (uncountable)
  1. UKnonstandarduncountableNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of simianization.

    These themes include the simianisation of Africans, the racist defamation of African masculinity, defeminisation of African women, the alleged 'arrested development' of African refugees, the 'Negro medicine' discourse and the denial of racism discourse.

    2017 March 14, Mandisi Majavu, Uncommodified Blackness: The African Male Experience in Australia and New Zealand (Mapping Global Racisms), Springer, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31
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