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Operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional levels and gives advantages, favors, and benefits to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of target groups.
Privilege
A power construct of collected or merged difference that lives socially.
Race
Refers to the process by which individuals apply critical thinking skills to examine their current situations, develop a deeper understanding about their concrete reality and devise, implement and evaluate solutions to their problems: focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world allowing for the perception and exposure of social and political contradictions. It includes taking action against oppressive elements in one’s life or in society that are illuminated by that understanding.
Critical Consciousness
The belief that White people are superior to those of all other people, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society. This is a term used to characterize various belief systems central to which are one or more of the following key tenets: 1) whites should have dominance over people of other backgrounds, especially where they may co-exist; 2) whites should live by themselves in a whites-only society; 3) white people have their own "culture" that is superior to other cultures; 4) white people are genetically superior to other people. As a full-fledged ideology, white supremacy is far more encompassing than simple racism or bigotry. Most white supremacists today further believe that the white race is in danger of extinction due to a rising “flood” of non-whites, who are controlled and manipulated by Jews, and that imminent action is need to “save” the white race.
White Supremacy
One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.
Racist
The idea that ignoring or overlooking racial and ethnic differences promotes racial harmony. It foists whiteness on everyone. It strips non white people of their uniqueness and pride in their cultures. It suppresses critically important narratives of oppression. It assumes that everyone has the same experience in the United States. It promotes the idea that non white people are inferior. It prevents us from seeing the historical causes of racial inequality and how racial inequality persists in our society.
Color Blindness
One who is classifying people of European descent as biologically, culturally, or behaviorally inferior or conflating the entire race of White people with racist power.
Anti-White Racist
Restorative Justice
an approach to justice in which one of the responses to a crime is to organize a meeting between the victim and the offender, sometimes with representatives of the wider community. The goal is for them to share their experience of what happened, to discuss who was harmed by the crime and how, and to create a consensus for what the offender can do to repair the harm from the offense: It is also a growing social movement to institutionalize peaceful approaches to harm, problem solving and violations of legal and human rights.
This concept was first used by French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault in his 1975 publication, Suveiller et Punir, to describe the modern penal system of the 1970’s, embodied by the well known penal institution at Meltray in France.
Carceral State
A model that views teaching as a justice seeking endeavor and learning as both a civil and human right for all students. The expansion of this concept to education in the US context asks what it means to teach in the age of mass or hyper incarceration, and the increasing criminalization of children in our schools, especially but not limited to, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, differently abled, queer, trans, Muslim, immigrant and “undocumented” children.
Transformative Justice
The process whereby people in the target group come to believe that the lies, prejudices, and stereotypes about them are true. Members of target groups exhibit this concept when they alter their attitudes, behaviors, speech, and self-confidence to reflect the stereotypes and norms of the dominant group. It can create low self-esteem, self-doubt, and even self-loathing. It can also be projected outward as fear, criticism, and distrust of members of one’s target group.
Internalized Oppression
a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment, slavery or incarceration
Abolitionist
One who is humanizing, deracializing, and individualizing nonviolent and violent behavior.
Bodily Antiracist
A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority; Of a particular race; a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles.
Racism
One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea.
Antiracist
A distinct type of a system of domination that functions through the replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that, over time, develops a distintive identity and sovereignty
Settler Colonialism
choosing to engage in the struggle for educational justice, knowing we have the ability and human right to refuse oppression and refuse to oppress others, mainly our students, parents and communities.
Abolitionist Teaching
One who is perceiving certain racialized bodies as more animal-like and violent than others.
Bodily Racist
One who is expressing the idea that the races are meaningfully different in their biology and that these differences create a hierarchy of value.
Biological Racist
One who is making racial group behavior fictional and individual behavior real.
Behavioral Antiracist
A practice of domination, which involved the subjugation of one people to another. This practice involves political and economic control over a dependent territory, and is marked by the transfer of population to a new territory, where the arrivals live as permanent settlers while maintaining political allegiance to their country of origin: The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting its natural resources economically.
Colonialism
The concept that affirmative action and similar color-conscious programs for redressing racial inequality are a form of anti-white racism. The concept is often associated with conservative social movements and the belief that social and economic gains by black people in the U.S. and elsewhere cause disadvantages for white people.
Reverse Racism
How disgust with and disdain for blackness inform defenses of inequitable distribution of resources. Theorization of this concept allows us to more precisely identify and respond to racism in education discourse and in the formation and implementation of policy. Author Michael Dumas contends that deeply embedded within racialized policy discourses is not merely a concern about disproportionality or inequality, but also a concern with the bodies of Black people, the signification of their blackness, and the threat posed by ‘the black’ to the well being of other people, other peoples property, including the property of literacy and education.
Anti-Blackness
What are the three levels of racism?
Internalized, interpersonal, institutional
One who is making individuals responsible for the perceived behavior of racial groups and making racial groups responsible for the behavior of individuals.
Behavioral Racist