Racialization describes how signifying processes construct social groups as races.

Evidence

The objective here is much narrower, however, and takes its cue from Miles’s (1989, p. 75) conception of racialization as a means of understanding the ways in which racial processes can attribute ‘meaning to somatic characteristics’ in a way that ‘presumes a social psychological theory which explains the nature and dynamics of the process’. This characterization captures several of the core components of antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiment and behaviour; most specifically the ways in which ‘signifying processes’ interact to ‘construct differentiated social collectivities as races’ (Miles 1989, p. 79). What is important about this formulation is that it speaks to both ideational and structural tendencies, as well as their interactions with each other, for example the features comprising institutional racism — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 36

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Miless racialization framework as attributing meaning to somatic characteristics via signifying processes.
• XREF: connects to: Racialization analysis targets groups marked by race, not prejudice itself. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 37; Parallel racialization logics target Jews and Muslims across eras. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 40; Racialization operates through cultural traits and social interactions, not only physical cues. (+13 more)

Related

• Racialization analysis targets groups marked by race, not prejudice itself. (similarity 0.91)
• Racialization binds disparate signifying practices into one shared symbolic meaning (similarity 0.87)
• Racialization is a political process that constantly transforms assigned social meanings. (similarity 0.86)
• Racialization extends racial meaning to previously unclassified groups or practices. (similarity 0.86)
• Racialization mutates with the power interests that institutionalize it, not fixed phenotypes. (similarity 0.85)
• Racialization assigns presumed negative traits to define a group. (similarity 0.85)
• Racialization is a changing process where context shapes anti-racism too (similarity 0.84)
• Socially constructed race still drives real-world outcomes for groups (similarity 0.83)
• Race is a product of racism, so groups are racialized rather than racial. (similarity 0.83)
• Visible phenotype is not required for a group to become racialized (similarity 0.82)
• Racism rests on pseudo-scientific race accounts that justify inequality. (similarity 0.82)
• Racial formation is an unstable process transformed by political struggle (similarity 0.82)
• Islam-as-race emerges only after Muslims coalesce as a racial group (similarity 0.82)
• When religion is racialized, cultural traits serve as surrogates for biology (similarity 0.82)
• Racialization can proceed from cultural traits without any phenotypic difference (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Racialization is a historical ideological process creating supposedly biological groups #expands (0.85)
• Racialization extends racial meaning to previously unclassified groups or practices. #expands (0.83) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 114
• Racialization is a political process that constantly transforms assigned social meanings. #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1241
• Racialized interactions carry histories and stereotypes that shape their meaning #expands (0.80)
• Racialization operates through cultural traits and social interactions, not only physical cues. #expands (0.78)
• Society is racialized when power, resources, and images are distributed by racial group membership #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1827
• Race is the conceptual form through which the practice of racism operates #expands (0.78)
• Racialization analysis links seemingly raceless resource competition to racial boundary-making. #expands (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1854
• Race is a product of racism, so groups are racialized rather than racial. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107
• Shifting racism’s targets exposes the social construction of race itself #expands (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 639
• Naturalizing one’s own cultural identity drives racialization of social life #expands (0.75)
• Race both creates belonging and produces rejection through categorization #expands (0.75)
• Racialization assigns presumed negative traits to define a group. #qualifies (0.72) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 594