Minority Within a Minority VI – What is Racialized

I don’t have formal trainign that will allow me to define absolutely the vernacular snack “racilaized”. In my experience it has been used in a number of ways. On this thread I have mostly seen it in two contexts. One simple the other not.

1) As an alternative adjective to describe POC (persons of colour) regardless of their race or colour (shade). And no, a person’s ancestry or place of origin do not automatically play into that. The definition has more to do with visibility. Does the person look “white”. So that takes in a lot of nationalities. I’ve begun to unpack a nightmare so I’m gonna stop there for the moment.

2) I has a way to describe a particular concious mental state of an individual (regardless of colour). This involves an awareness or an attempt to understand how race and shadism is played out in the various concentric circles of locality, nationality, and globalism. It attempts to stir in history, class, gender, economics, politics, power dynamics, legal and social systems, etc.

There’s my crack at it. Hope that adds to what has been said so far.

A friend posted the following links elsewhere on the world wide web. Both are satires which reveal how certain arguments need critical thought in both presentation and analysis. I wanted to make sure I dropped them here because I think they are relevant to some of the posts that I have read.

How to Suppress Discussions on Racism!
http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html

The Art of Defending Racism:
http://community.livejournal.com/sex_and_race/296541.html