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deracialize en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + racialize.

Meanings

1. To treat in nonracial terms; to remove the racialization of.
   • Given this legacy, any power with a democratic state project in post-colonial Africa confronted a dual task: first, simultaneously to deracialize civil power and deethnicize customary power; and then, […] 2002, Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
   • Clearly it would be absurd to suggest its elimination in those societies in which rights are apportioned directly or indirectly on a racial basis. One could not deracialize South African society, for example, without it ceasing to be South African […] 1986, John Rex, Race and Ethnicity, →ISBN:
   • Much like his efforts to “deracialize” the question of slavery in relation to the Independents' Civil War, Whedon attempts to deracialize his Indians by portraying them through actors of varied ethnicities. 2020, Kerry Kinney Fine, Michael Kyle Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, Sara L. Spurgeon, Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:

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