The process through which groups come to be socially constructed as races, based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, language, economics, religion, culture, politics, etc. That is, treated out [..]

1874, from racial + -ize + -ation.

the process by which individuals and groups of people are viewed through a racial lens, through a culturally invented racial framework. Racialization is often referred to as racialism.

The process by which dominant groups frame peoples’ identities in terms of color in ways that reinforce the privilege of whites and create the multiple disadvantages that people of color face. People are racialized in different ways depending on whether they are Native American, Asian, Latino or African-American. The experience of each varies again [..]

Use of race as a social convenience, depending on society’s whim at the time. Use of race as a primary explanation for an individual’s behavior.

"The term racialization has been adopted to emphasize the process whereby populations have been socially constructed as races, usually based on real or imagined cultural, physical and/or genetic [..]

 the process by which societies construct races as real, different and unequal in ways that matter and affect economic, political and social life.