hyperracialized

English

Adjective

hyperracialized (not comparable)

1. Highly or excessively racialized.
   • 2008, Curtis Stokes, Race and Human Rights, MSU Press, →ISBN:

     […] affirmative action has been oversimplified, politicized, hyperracialized, and "blackened" by whitestream American political and popular culture.

   • 2013, Paul Outka, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance, Palgrave Macmillan, →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 […]

   • 2014, Mitra Sharafi, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 311:

     Why may this hyperracialized identity have congealed in the late colonial period?

   • 2015, Sylvester A. Johnson, African American Religions, 1500–2000, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     New to this context were the rationalities that shaped Atlantic slavery as a coherent enterprise – it became a hyperracialized form of commerce.

   • 2015, Trimiko Melancon, Joanne M. Braxton, Black Female Sexualities, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:

     The 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.