Racialization binds disparate signifying practices into one shared symbolic meaning

Evidence

Overdetermination works the other way as well, of course, so that many different signifying acts can get cathected to the same object. So, for example, if we shift the focus to consider the public meaning of racist graffiti it becomes clear that the performative power of the message “Pakis go home” (i.e., to actuate the reality it refers to, by “persuading” Asians to move from the area) depends for this “graphic” effect on its material functioning within a whole network of other signifying practices mobilized in strategies of racial harassment (i.e., spitting, obscene gestures, insults, verbal threats, threatening letters and phone calls, vandalism, feces put through letter boxes, etc.). In other words a whole lot of disparate practices, each with their own “logic of signification” may nevertheless by habitual association come to have a shared symbolic meaning bound up with their application to a common object, and this indeed is the work of “racialization.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1293

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives racialization a specific, usable definition: the habitual association by which disparate signifying practices acquire a shared symbolic meaning applied to a common (racial) object.
• XREF: Directly grounds and sharpens racialization as used by Omi & Winant elsewhere in the vault; also connects to Hall’s conjunctural and overdetermined analyses of racism in Essential Essays. — connects to: Racialized interactions carry histories and stereotypes that shape their meaning; Racialization extends racial meaning to previously unclassified groups or practices. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 114; Racialization describes how signifying processes construct social groups as races. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 36 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racialized interactions carry histories and stereotypes that shape their meaning #corroborates (0.88)
• Cultural and religious practices become racialized markers treated as inherent traits. #exemplifies (0.82) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 69
• Racialization extends racial meaning to previously unclassified groups or practices. #expands (0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 114
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #exemplifies (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274
• Racialization describes how signifying processes construct social groups as races. #expands (0.75) — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 36
• Race is the conceptual form through which the practice of racism operates #corroborates (0.75)
• Cultural attributes can be racialized even when skin tone matches whiteness #exemplifies (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 299