invisiblize

Etymology

invisible + -ize

verb

  1. (transitive, chiefly sociology) To make invisible; to marginalize so as to erase the presence or contributions of.
    […] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity which, as Rolling Stone demonstrates, are crucial to an understanding […] of rock as a musical/cultural practice. 2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture
    Furthermore, I claim this subordinate place to traditional medical systems tends to create a perception that holistic health practices are only now emerging, which can invisiblize their long history of development and utilization[…] 2008, Donna A. Dragon, Toward Embodied Education, 1850s-2007, page 338

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