Sentence examples for racialized thinking from inspiring English sources
Racialized thinking can range from open hostility -- what some call "old-fashioned racism" -- to color-blind passivity -- what some would call "racial ambivalence".
I don't experience racialized hardship, so it's easy for me to say: "Race doesn't matter". But challenging racial thinking doesn't mean denying the reality of racism.
Just to be clear, one does not have to be racist (e.g., dislike black people or other racial groups) to use race in their thinking and, more importantly, racial thinking is not one directional; regardless of one's own racial background they are susceptible to racialized biases and subsequently racialized behaviors or "racial discrimination".
The point is that Mayweather's comments are reflective of a society still entrenched in racialized, but perhaps not "racist" thinking.
It exposes the multi-faceted nature of discrimination as concomitantly racialized, gendered, aged, geographical, temporal, etc. Professor Crenshaw's metaphor of the "intersections" at which we live is a touchstone for thinking about race in the United States and beyond.
And thinking, thinking, thinking".
