re: specificity of racialization: bsky.app/profile/bloo...
yeah i get you, the point im getting at here (w/ the second post in the thread esp.) is that it's not exactly coincidental that the language being drawn from with the words references a human history of racialization, antiblackness, slavery, servitude, colonialism, precisely because of
October 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
re: specificity of racialization: bsky.app/profile/bloo...
Oh good, the *other* way I'm degendered!
April 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Oh good, the *other* way I'm degendered!
Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book
THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT
for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social.
Forthcoming, early 2027.
THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT
for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social.
Forthcoming, early 2027.
March 26, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book
THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT
for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social.
Forthcoming, early 2027.
THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT
for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social.
Forthcoming, early 2027.
New @repslab.bsky.social paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social, "Partisans of Color: Asian American and Latino Party ID in an Era of Racialization and Polarization."
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Partisans of Color: Asian American and Latino Party ID in an Era of Racialization and Polarization | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Partisans of Color: Asian American and Latino Party ID in an Era of Racialization and Polarization
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February 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New @repslab.bsky.social paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social, "Partisans of Color: Asian American and Latino Party ID in an Era of Racialization and Polarization."
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Degendering and Racialization remains one of my fav essays, if you wanna read it, you can also do that here:
Degendering and Racialization
Or: Do cis women of color "experience transmisogyny"?
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June 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Degendering and Racialization remains one of my fav essays, if you wanna read it, you can also do that here:
So antisemitism refers to Jews, because that was how the term was invented. It was a way of inventing the racialization of the Jews, and it therefore differs from (while still borrowing from) earlier Christian anti-Judaism.
September 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
So antisemitism refers to Jews, because that was how the term was invented. It was a way of inventing the racialization of the Jews, and it therefore differs from (while still borrowing from) earlier Christian anti-Judaism.
I literally explained this to my race course today as an example of the racialization of sport.
Yes! Teaching sports history would actually clear up some of this, for example basketball once being seen as a particularly Jewish sport in its early history due to the shape of society at the time, but way too many people don’t take this stuff seriously.
One of the answers is that way more people believe in race science than you'd ever think, even if they mean well in their communities. For example, you'd be shocked how many Americans believe that LeBron James has extra muscles.
August 27, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I literally explained this to my race course today as an example of the racialization of sport.
exciting times to be in the very early process of the racialization of us white scandinavians
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
exciting times to be in the very early process of the racialization of us white scandinavians
Exploitation through racialization
April 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Exploitation through racialization
This is also why when people discuss the "masculinization of non-white men" I look at them askance because racialization and gender aren't that clear-cut. Sometimes racialized men (and women) are hulking brutes, sometimes they're feminized and unmanly, it's all quite contextual.
Ngl there's a specific... offness... white people can have about Asian men, to the tune of 'in Asia the men are effeminate soft-jawed pussies who can't grow beards, unlike the alpha chads of the west whose faces are literal rectangles and who have 5000 facial/body hairs sprouting from every pore'.
May 2, 2026 at 12:19 PM
This is also why when people discuss the "masculinization of non-white men" I look at them askance because racialization and gender aren't that clear-cut. Sometimes racialized men (and women) are hulking brutes, sometimes they're feminized and unmanly, it's all quite contextual.
re: the canada and us trade thing. why do some americans think quebec is like ... white louisiana?? this isn't pre révolution tranquille its closest analogy (politics, racialization, settler mythos) is a francophone new england
August 23, 2026 at 8:20 PM
re: the canada and us trade thing. why do some americans think quebec is like ... white louisiana?? this isn't pre révolution tranquille its closest analogy (politics, racialization, settler mythos) is a francophone new england
Check out this special feature that I co-edited with brilliant @nahir.bsky.social: Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race” | PMLA | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4anHgVM .
Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race” | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race” - Volume 140 Issue 5
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February 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Check out this special feature that I co-edited with brilliant @nahir.bsky.social: Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race” | PMLA | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4anHgVM .
I only just learned the word "extirpate" while reading a book about the racialization of American Indians and now I think about it all the time
January 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I only just learned the word "extirpate" while reading a book about the racialization of American Indians and now I think about it all the time
"racialized cis women face transmisogyny" has two glaring issues.
1. For women of color, *degendering* has always been a vector of dehumanization; the modern trans panic only gave new language to an extant phenomenon.
2. Crucially, it forgets about trans women of color.
Read my latest:
1. For women of color, *degendering* has always been a vector of dehumanization; the modern trans panic only gave new language to an extant phenomenon.
2. Crucially, it forgets about trans women of color.
Read my latest:
Degendering and Racialization
Or: Do cis women of color "experience transmisogyny"?
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"racialized cis women face transmisogyny" has two glaring issues.
1. For women of color, *degendering* has always been a vector of dehumanization; the modern trans panic only gave new language to an extant phenomenon.
2. Crucially, it forgets about trans women of color.
Read my latest:
1. For women of color, *degendering* has always been a vector of dehumanization; the modern trans panic only gave new language to an extant phenomenon.
2. Crucially, it forgets about trans women of color.
Read my latest:
the important point here being that none of these contradictions around racialization are "solved" but are always strategic ones made to enact policing-effects. just like how whiteness becomes a cross-gender cross-class national [racial] union to "protect the borders" against "the global south"
August 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
the important point here being that none of these contradictions around racialization are "solved" but are always strategic ones made to enact policing-effects. just like how whiteness becomes a cross-gender cross-class national [racial] union to "protect the borders" against "the global south"
i agree, tho these are inextricable because of a history where dehumanization is so often linked to racialization, since the human is always-already white
October 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
i agree, tho these are inextricable because of a history where dehumanization is so often linked to racialization, since the human is always-already white
And if we create that society, that means we have also freed ourselves from patriarchy, which to do so we will also need to free ourselves from racialization and to do that we need to destroy class hierarchies. Trans liberation is liberation for all and liberation for all is trans liberation.
July 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
And if we create that society, that means we have also freed ourselves from patriarchy, which to do so we will also need to free ourselves from racialization and to do that we need to destroy class hierarchies. Trans liberation is liberation for all and liberation for all is trans liberation.
My article on capitalist racialization and Chinese migration in British Asia received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Article Award from APSA's International History and Politics Section.
Open access👇
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From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire - Volume 118 Issue 4
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June 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
My article on capitalist racialization and Chinese migration in British Asia received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Article Award from APSA's International History and Politics Section.
Open access👇
Open access👇
Wdym Aria, neither of us is going to face any issues because we pass as cis, except for when our racialization means that we can never pass as cis.
March 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Wdym Aria, neither of us is going to face any issues because we pass as cis, except for when our racialization means that we can never pass as cis.
It's more like 'ugly laws' and declaring our very existence 'obscene' than like a system of racial apartheid, so I wouldn't use that comparison. Especially since racialization does intersection with transphobia in unique ways.
August 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It's more like 'ugly laws' and declaring our very existence 'obscene' than like a system of racial apartheid, so I wouldn't use that comparison. Especially since racialization does intersection with transphobia in unique ways.
If y'all want to understand why transmisogyny and racialized degendering are such closely coupled, homoousian forces employed by natalist, nationalist politics:
Degendering and Racialization
Or: Do cis women of color "experience transmisogyny"?
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If y'all want to understand why transmisogyny and racialized degendering are such closely coupled, homoousian forces employed by natalist, nationalist politics:
I just submitted my book for peer review. After 15 years of thinking, researching, and writing, and, as I keep saying, an NEH this year to finish up. I’m furious about the gutting of that institution, which makes so much knowledge possible. I hope this book eventually lives up to that honor.
June 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I just submitted my book for peer review. After 15 years of thinking, researching, and writing, and, as I keep saying, an NEH this year to finish up. I’m furious about the gutting of that institution, which makes so much knowledge possible. I hope this book eventually lives up to that honor.
Women of color--usually cis, because TWoC remain a rarity within trans rep--acting as helpmeets for white protagonists, texturing their emotional journeys by drawing parallels betweeen racialization and transmisogyny in horribly clunky ways, and worst of all, being sexualized in a way that is ...
December 23, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Women of color--usually cis, because TWoC remain a rarity within trans rep--acting as helpmeets for white protagonists, texturing their emotional journeys by drawing parallels betweeen racialization and transmisogyny in horribly clunky ways, and worst of all, being sexualized in a way that is ...