Racialization assigns visibly non-white people into a collective identity they may not hold

Evidence

In other words, black people are singled out for a certain kind of treatment in this country precisely because they are black. It is not a simple matter of how they choose to identify. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 340 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In all these instances the individuals do not act as individuals alone, nor are their actions interpreted as those of individuals alone - they are not the specific expressions of individual selves, but rather are shaped by definite forms of social relationships, ideologies and images. … This is what it means to say that society is racialized - that it is systematically organized around beliefs about race; that the distribution of power, resources, and images, corresponds closely with membership of racialized groups; and that members of these groups are conscious of such organization (see Goldberg, 1993; Small, 1999). Racialization includes macro and micro level aspects, collective and individual aspects, and institutional and ideological aspects. … I propose that we think of the racialization of society in terms of structures, ideologies, and images. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1827 (#expands, via linked claim)

At the same time, it is worth recalling the awkward fact that the “naturalization” of the descriptive term “black” for the whole of the Caribbean, or the equivalent, “Afro-Caribbean” for all West Indian migrants abroad, performs its own kind of silencing in our new transnational world. The young Trinidadian artist Steve Ouditt has lived and worked in the US, England, and what he describes as the “Sucrotopia” of Trinidad. He describes himself as “a post-independence American/English educated Christian Indian Trinidadian West Indian Creole male artist,” whose work—in written and installation form—“navigates the difficult terrain between the visual and the verbal.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 860 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial identity is a dynamic bricolage, not a fixed biological given.; Racial identity forms in settings and social exchanges, not just within individuals.; The legal self-identification requirement for ethnic groups constitutes self-racialization — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 57 (+22 more)

Broader Connections

• Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen #corroborates (1.00) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 340
• Society is racialized when power, resources, and images are distributed by racial group membership #expands (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1827
• Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression #expands (0.95)
• Naturalized racial labels perform their own silencing of hybrid identities #corroborates (0.95) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 860
• Racial erasure renders non-whites into an ignored natural backdrop. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 53
• Naturalizing one’s own cultural identity drives racialization of social life #complicates (0.90)
• Coalitional antiracist identity politics suppressed internal differences among the nonwhite #complicates (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 151
• Nonwhite people can be deeply racist and central to white supremacy’s maintenance #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3653
• White racial identity strengthens through contrast with minority out-groups #complicates (0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1119
• Acceptable minority identity requires denying the racism one faces #complicates (0.75)
• Collective identities like class, race, nation and gender positioned the individual self #complicates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 188
• Racism locates identity beyond will so conversion yields loss not change #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 179