deracialize

English

Alternative forms

• deracialise

Etymology

de- +‎ racialize

Verb

deracialize (third-person singular simple present deracializes, present participle deracializing, simple past and past participle deracialized)

1. To treat in nonracial terms; to remove the racialization of.
   • 1986, John Rex, Race and Ethnicity, →ISBN:

     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  […]

   • 2002, Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 30:

     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,  […]

   • 2020, Kerry Kinney Fine, Michael Kyle Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, Sara L. Spurgeon, Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre, U of Nebraska Press, →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.