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reify
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reify - To regard (something abstract) as a material thing.
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Still, hegemony does not preclude contestation; it merely requires that dissent unfold within a frame that reifies the legitimacy of a given elite.
Race, Class and Power in the Building of Richmond, 1870-1920 by Lang, Clarence / Journal of Social History
Furthermore, to rely solely on a constitutional framework reifies the legitimacy of the U.
Conquest and compensation: Blacks and Native Americans haven't agreed ... by Smith, Andrea / Colorlines Magazine
Given the story's virtually antipodal narrative impulses, I conclude that the text simultaneously expands the parameters of black male desire both psychosocially and sexually, while it reifies execrable dimensions of legitimized masculine praxis: most notably, its sanctioning of anti-gay violence as a marker of a culturally enshrined masculine ethos.
Que(e)rying the prison-house of Black male desire: homosociality in ... by Clark, Keith / African American Review
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