different between facialize vs racialize

English

Etymology

facial +? -ize

Verb

facialize (third-person singular simple present facializes, present participle facializing, simple past and past participle facialized)

1. (rare) To put a face to; to give a face. [20th century]
   • 1992, Orientalism and cultural differences, page 30:

     Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […]

   • 1996, Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies ?ISBN, page 435

     Likewise, this trend in the public sphere to put "faces" on social problems has the paradoxical effect of making the faces generic and not individual: thus the facializing gesture that promotes identification across the spaces of alterity is, in effect, an equivocal challenge to shift the political and cultural boundaries of what will count politically as human.
2. (rare) To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.) [20th century]
   • 2008, Stuart Kane, The Green Man and the Facial Machine, in Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern, page 43:

     The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […]
3. (rare) To give a facial (personal beauty treatment, or sex act) to. [21st century]
   • 2006 September 27, "[email protected]" (username), Hardcore indian sex, Brittney skye facial cum, Monica sweetheart enjoys slurping, in alt.sex.nfs, Usenet:

     Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized

   • 2011, Steve Coney, Gardening With Napalm ?ISBN, page 102:

     Yeah, you blew it with America 's sweetheart, but guys like us really only want to deflower, defile, sodomize, and facialize a good-girl sweetheart anyway.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:facialize.

See also

• faciality
• facialness

English

Alternative forms

• racialise

Etymology

racial +? -ize

Verb

racialize (third-person singular simple present racializes, present participle racializing, simple past and past participle racialized)

1. To categorize or treat in racial terms.
   • 2010, C. Richard King, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Animating Difference ?ISBN, page 41:

     For instance, not only is Oscar racialized as black, we can also see an ethnicization of race whereby Oscar is constructed as a black American.

Derived terms

• racialization

See also

• ethnize, ethnization
• ethnicize, ethnicization