Society is racialized when power, resources, and images are distributed by racial group membership

Evidence

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides a precise working definition of racialization as systematic organization around beliefs about race across structures, ideologies, and images.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that individuals never act or are interpreted as individuals alone in racialized contexts is a dense, paradigm-shifting formulation that resists summary.
• XREF: connects to: Racialization describes how signifying processes construct social groups as races. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 36; Shared oil bounty is partitioned into class and racial segregation — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 233