How to Use racialize in a Sentence

racialize

verb
  • Yet their effects are deeply racialized.
    — Deborah Archer, Time, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Riefenstahl’s shots of Owens, his definition and tendons vividly etched in the film, are thus not admiring, but rather racialized.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The ability to cultivate the land still necessitates the ability to actually sell your product and to work within a sort of economic system that is deeply racialized.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Rastus, Westinghouse’s Great Depression-era robot, was the most overtly racialized of these corporate robot slaves.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The Court’s ruling validated the doctrine of racial difference and hierarchy that had been used to justify racialized slavery and continues to haunt our nation today.
    — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • These spaces exist alongside, not outside of, America’s hugely ineffective — and highly racialized — War on Drugs.
    — Jerel Ezell, STAT, 1 May 2026
  • The Brennan Center’s research also revealed the gendered and racialized nature of this crisis, with women three to four times more likely to experience abuse targeting their gender than men.
    — Ernestine Nettles, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • This ongoing challenge underscores how accomplished women, particularly women of color, still face gendered and racialized assaults that undermine their achievements.
    — Sophia A. Nelson, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • But although unfree labor was the norm, with a few exceptions there was not yet the form of permanent, heritable, racialized chattel slavery that would emerge in the Atlantic economies, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This pass system mirrors bureaucratic and racialized mechanisms that have been similarly deployed by other settler-colonial states—such as the US, Canada and South Africa—to control the movement of Indigenous populations.
    — Literary Hub august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025

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