Diversity
What is Diversity?
The presences of different and multiple characteristics that make up individual and collective identities, including race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, socioeconomic status, language, and physical ability.
What is Equity?
The process of identifying and removing the barriers that create disparities in the access to means and resources, and the achievements of fair treatment and equal opportunities to thrive.
What is Inclusion?
Creating an environment in which any individual or group can be and feel welcomed, respected. supported. and valued up participate fully
What is Cultural Appropriation?
The act of stealing cultural elements (icons, rituals, aesthetic, standers or behavior) of ones couture by another for personal use or profit (Halloween)
What does LGBTQIA stand for?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual
What is Inclusive Language?
Language that acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promote equal opportunities
What is accessibility?
The intentional design or redesign of physical spaces. technology, policies, systems, and services.
What is an Ally?
Someone who makes the commitment and effort to recognize their privilege (gender, color, race, sexual identity, etc.) and work in solidarity with oppressed groups in the struggle for justice
What is Color Blind Ideology?
The attitude that people should be treated equally as possible without regard for race or ethnicity, overlooking the importance if racism in policy and instructions.
What does ESL stand for?
English as a Second Language
What is the difference between gender expression and gender identity?
Gender Expression is the way which a person outwardly demonstrates there characteristics(act, dress, interact).
Gender Identity is how a person sees themselves in terms of their gender.
What is Gentrification?
A process of economic change in a historically lower class neighborhood by increasing investments into high real estate, slowly changing the demographic within terms of income, education, and racial makeup.
What is Classism?
The institutional, cultural, and individual set of actions and beliefs that assigns different value to people according to their socioeconomic status.
What is Critical Race Theory?
A school of thought that acknowledges racism exists within US social instructions, systems, laws, regulations, and procedures and produce different outcomes.
What does ADA stand for?
Americans Disabilities Act
What is Internalized Racism?
The conscious or unconscious development of ideas, beliefs, social structures, actions and behaviors that confirm ones appearance of dominate society's racist troupes and stereotypes of there own race.
What is Structural Racism?
The overarching system of racial bias's instructions in society. It encompasses dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with "whiteness" and disadvantages associated with "color" to endure and adapt over time.
What is a Safe Space?
An environment where everyone feels comfortable expressing themselves and participating fully, without fear of attack, ridicule, or denial or experience.
What is Intersectionality?
The intertwining of the social identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, social class, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity
What does BIPoC stand for?
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
What do Racial Equality and Racial Justice have in common?
Both identify the unfair systematic treatment of people of all races and paying attention not just to individual-level discriminations and inequalities, but all overall social outcomes.
What is Social Equity?
The fair, just and equitable management of all institutions serving the public directly or by cone=cat, and the fair and equitable distribution of public serves, and implementation of public policy, and the commitment to promoted fairness, justice, and equity in the formation of public policy.
What is cultural humility?
An interpersonal stance that is open to individual and the direct cultural communities and experiences in relation to aspect of one own cultural identity. Maintaining cultural unitality requires leaning and understanding the complexity of identify and how they evolve over time.
What is Racial Anxiety?
The concerns that often arise both before and during interracial interactions. People of color experience racial anxiety when they worry that they will be subject to discriminatory treatment. White people, on the other hind, experience it when they worry that they will be perceived as racist.
What does SOGIE stand for?
Sexual Orientation(SO), Gender Identity(GI), and (gender) expression (E)