animalize

“Often, it is only by anthropomorphizing animals and animalizing humans that the fictions that necessitate human borders can be propped up at all.”

Without overdoing it, good animal books humanize animals while animalizing humans.

The racially-charged descriptor has been historically used in the U.S. to animalize, degrade and dehumanize black people.

Both descriptors have been used in this country historically to dehumanize, animalize and degrade black people.

But alongside the rest of that animalizing language, it winkingly indicts the accused — who were teenagers — not only for being criminals but also for being black.