Ethnic Studies Terms
Science has proven that this is a social, not a biological construct.
What is Race?
The act of giving all people the same access to resources regardless of their need.
What is equality?
This approach aims to support people with the resources they require to live dignified lives.
What is equity?
The prejudices and discriminatory behaviors by which one group makes assumptions about the abilities, motives, and intents of other groups based on their race.
What is interpersonal racism?
When a racial or ethnic group is bombarded with negative messages about their own abilities and worth and they begin to believe and act upon those negative messages.
What is internalized racism?
The term BIPOC.
What is Black, Indigenous, People of Color?
An escalation that occurs when one is devalued as a full person due to violent names, beliefs, and acts towards them.
What is Dehumanization?
This concept allows us to view the ways Black women may experience various forms of discrimination in their daily lives.
What is Womanism?
Examines the histories, experiences and cultures of various racial and ethnic groups and explores race and ethnicity in various social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts.
What is Ethnic Studies?
The Doll Test was an example of this type specific type of bias which people unknowingly learn at an early age.
What is unconscious bias?
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people on the basis of their racial or ethnic group.
What is racism?
An example of a third gender culturally recognized throughout history in Mexico.
What are the Muxes of Oaxaca?
This approach aims to undo the harmful impacts artificial systems have had on various marginalized groups.
What is justice?
When someone is forced to take on the same traits, norms, behaviors, and ways of thinking as the dominant group to achieve a minimal level of social acceptance.
What is assimilation?
When assumptions about race are structured into the social and economic institutions in our society such as organizations, businesses, schools, police departments, etc.
What is institutional racism?
The quality or fact of belonging to a population, group, or subgroup, made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
What is ethnicity?
An array of knowledge, skills, abilities, or contracts possessed or utilized by communities of color to survive and resist macro and micro-forms of oppression.
What is Community Cultural Wealth or Cultural Capital?
Critically analyzes how individuals hold multiple identities, forming a unique identity that encounters varied challenges and forms of oppression.
What is intersectionality?
A nebulous or undefinable space that many who do not only belong to one specific way of life exist within. A space where marginalized peoples are forced into.
What is the Borderlands or Borderlands Identity?
This is the name given to the type of hardship various marginalized groups have experienced through multiple forms of abuse which then gets passed on to future generations.
What is Intergenerational Trauma?
The process of categorizing or marginalizing by assigning it a racial character.
What is racialization?
"TO ACKNOWLEDGE OTHERS AS AN EXTENSION OF ONESELF WHILE DEMONSTRATING RESPECT, CARE, AND CONNECTION TO THEM...FOR THE NEXT SEVEN GENERATIONS TO COME." is an example of what Indigenous principle and practice?
What is reciprocity?
This concept allows us to see the nuanced ways varying racial groups experience racism, while its application opposes racists institutions and systems.
What is antiracism?
European histories, practices, and perspectives which become universalized and centered as the only acceptable standard.
What is Eurocentrism?
Refers to the ways in which social structures and institutions, over time, perpetuate and produce cumulative, durable, race-based inequalities; even without any racist intent on the part of individuals.
What is Structural Racism?