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Anti-racist
Encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups.
Assimilationist
One who expresses the racist idea that a racial group is culturally and behaviorally inferior, believing that a racial group can be changed for the better by acting like another racial group.
Black Face
Black makeup worn by White performers to exaggerate and mock Black people.
Color-blind
The idea that someone does not see race and is therefore free from racial prejudice.
Colorism
Prejudice or discrimination with a racial or ethnic group against individuals with darker skin in favor of those with lighter skin.
Discrimination
Unjust or prejudicial treatment of people, based on factors of their identity.
Equality
When people of all races and ethnicities are treated in an egalitarian/equal manner. Racial equality occurs when institutions give individuals legal, moral, and political rights. In present-day Western society, equality among races continues to become normative
Humanity
Compassionate behavior toward all people.
Inequity
Unequal distribution of resources and opportunities.
Inhuman
Cruel lack of human qualities of compassion, kindness and mercy.
Institutional Racism
The racial attitudes found in a ethnic group’s traditions, beliefs, opinions, and myths that are firmly ingrained in the very fiber of the ethnic group’s cultural paradigm, where such traditions, beliefs, opinions, and myths have been practiced and sustained for so long, that they are accepted as common facts, understood to be normal behavioral practices whereas, such practices in effect marginalize, and demonize the human worth of another ethnic group.
Oppression
Continued cruel or unjust treatment or control.
Race
An invented social construct to categorize a group of people who share a particular physical trait, like skin color.
Refugee
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape danger, war, climate change or natural disasters.
Racial Inequality
Imbalances in the distribution of power, economic resources, and opportunities." Racial inequalities have manifested in American society in ways ranging from racial disparities in wealth, poverty rates, bankruptcy, housing patterns, educational opportunities.
Racism
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.: "a program to combat racism".
Racist
Characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.: "we are investigating complaints about racist abuse" "the systems work to uphold and enforce racist policies.
Segregation
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others. "a model that perpetuates the segregation of older people"
Slavery
Condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Noun the state of being a slave. "thousands had been sold into slavery"
Systemic Racism
An infrastructure of rulings, ordinances or statutes promulgated by a sovereign government or authoritative entity, whereas such ordinances and statutes entitles one ethnic group in a society certain rights and privileges, while denying other groups in that society these same rights and privileges because of long-established cultural prejudices, religious prejudices, fears, myths, and Xenophobia held by the entitled group.
White Fragility
Discomfort and defensiveness on the part of a white person when confronted by information about racial inequality and injustice.
White Supremacy
The belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races. the social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races.
White-Washing
To alter (something) in a way that favors, features, or caters to white people: such as. a. : to portray (the past) in a way that increases the prominence, relevance, or impact of white people and minimizes or misrepresents that of nonwhite people.
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