Difference Matters
This term refers to the unearned, unacknowledged entitlement one receives in everyday life simply because of white skin.
What is White Privilege
An education system where students are passive recipients of knowledge, often reinforcing opression and limiting critical thinking.
What is Banking Model of Education
A collective coordination to meet each other’s needs, usually from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them. It is a cooperative support and reciprical aid provided within communities emphasizing solidarity over charity.
What is Mutual Aid
This term refers to "any theory or belief that a person's inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair texture or facial features, determine human intelectual capacity and personality traits."
What is Racism
Who said, "The ideology of white supremacy refers to an internalized belief that white people are superior to all other races."
This term encompases specialized skills and knowledge such as linguistic and cultural competencies, passed down through one's family or from experiences in social intstitutions, such as Ivy League Education.
What is Cultural Capital
The process of recognizing and affirming the full humanity of others, often through dialogue, empathy, respect, and social equality.
What is Humanization
The unity and mutual support between individuals or groups, especially in pursuit of common goals or shared values.
What is Solidarity
A system or practice of managing individuals or groups by restricting their autonomy under the belief that it's "for their own good."
Who said, "Fear of freedom, of which its possessor is not necessarily aware, makes him see ghosts. Such an individual is actually taking refuge in an attempt to achieve security, which he or she prefers to the risks of liberty."
What is Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The assumption that heterosexuality is the norm.
What is Heteronormativity
Acts of giving charity that ultimately maintain the existing power structures, often benefitting the giver more than the recipient and failing to address systemic issues.
What is False Generosity
The shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms of a particular group, which influences individual behavior and group cohesion.
A political and economic ideology that promotes free-market capitalism, minimal government intervention and individual responsibility over collective welfare.
What is Neoliberalism
Left social movements have two big jobs right now. First, we need to organize to help people survive the devastating conditions unfolding every day. Second, we need to mobilize hundreds of millions of people for resistance so we can tackle the underlying causes of these crises.
What is Dean Spade, Mutual Aid
This term refers to the social construct and cultural norms surrounding femininity and masculinity.
What is gender
The practice of applying theory, action and reflection in the pursuit of social justice.
What is Praxis
When a movement, language, or idea is taken over by others, often those with power or priviledge in a way that changes or dilutes its original meaning.
What is Co-Optization or Co-Opted
A form of discrimination and social prejudice against people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities.
What is Ableism
The antidialogical individual, in his relations with others, aims at conquering them-increasingly and by every means, from the toughest to the most refined, from the most repressive to the most solicitous (paternalism).
This term occurs when individuals work to accomplish the organizations goals while being complicit (involved) in their own domination.
What is hegemony.
The act of gaining freedom from oppressive structures, enabling individuals and communities to attain self-determination and autonomy.
What is Liberation
This term usually refers to rich people or the government making decisions about the provision of some kind of support to poor people—that is, rich people or the government deciding who gets the help, what the limits are to that help, and what strings are attached.
What is Charity.
When an indivudal or group, often from priviledged backgrounds believes they can "save" or "rescue" marginalized groups, usually without addressing root causes of inequality.
What is Saviorism
Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the ex-
ternal. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external.
Martin Luther King Jr., The World House