Racialization infantilizes the colonized and scars their language

Evidence

Cervantes leads us into a moment of instability, where the poet is unplaceable and “childlike.” Cervantes acknowledges the infantilizing effects of racialization, colonization, and marginalization, and how language bears these marks in its syllables - or scars she must recite to survive. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2498

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Celebrating working-class dialect is reactionary because domination has deformed the poor’s language — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 116; Enslaved Africans’ linguistic loss was itself a source of terror; Benevolent hegemony language still infantilizes and racializes the colonized. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 483 (+2 more)