Let's Identify!
A political construction created to concentrate power with white people and legitimize dominance over non-whites.
What is Race
Institutional and systemic ways by which different consequences are created for groups historically or currently defined as white being advantaged and groups historically defined as non-whites being disadvantaged.
What is racism.
positive and negative judgments that are activated unintentionally and outside of our conscious awareness or control.
What is implicit bias
Acceptance if and acting out of a superior access to power and advantages based on ones race.
What is Internalized racial superiority.
Someone who makes the commitment and effort to recognize their privileges and work in solidarity with oppressed groups in the struggle for social justice.
What is an Ally
A social system of unspoken rules that shape values, beliefs, habits, patterns of thinking, behaviors and styles of communication.
What is Culture
Systemic devaluating, undermining, marginalizing, and disadvantaging of certain social identities in contrast to the privileged norm.
What is oppression
consciously accessible and intentionally informs our decisions and behaviors.
What is explicit memory.
internal processing and adoption of misinformation, stereotypes and oppressive views that society communicates about targeted social groups.
What is internalized oppression
Authentically bringing traditionally excluded individual and groups into processes, activities and decision/policy making in a way that shares power.
What is inclusion
_______ includes all the ways in which people differ and it encompasses all the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another.
What is Diversity
A pre-judgment or unjustifiable and usually negative attitude of one type of individual or groups toward another group and its members.
What is prejudice.
every day verbal, nonverbal and environmental slights, snubs or insults whether intentional or unintentional.
What are microaggressions
Acceptance of and acting out of an inferior definition of self given by the oppressor.
What is Internalized racial inferiority.
A process of learning about and becoming allies with people from different cultures.
What is Multicultural competency.
An approach largely advanced by women of color, arguing that classification such as gender, race, class and others cannot be examined in isolation from one another.
What is diversity
An unequal treatment of members of various groups based on race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, physical abilities, religion and other categories.
What is discrimination.
communications that subtly excludes, negates or nullifies the experiential reality of a person of color.
What are micro-invalidations
Trauma causing events.
What is traumagenics
The process of recognizing racism, political and economic empowerment of oppressed groups and restorative justice.
What is Racial reconciliation
A social construct that divides people into smaller social groups based on characteristics such as shared sense of group membership, values, behavioral patterns, language, political and economic interests, history and ancestral geographical base.
What is ethnicity.
Refers to the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.
What is white privilege.
agitated or anxious people provoked in anticipation of or during engagement with people another race.
What is racial anxiety.
Internal changes in worldwide view and perceptions of self and others due to chronic exposure to traumatic events.
What is Vicarious trauma
this would be achieved if ones racial identity no longer predicted how one fares.
What is Racial equity.