Cultural Identities
Practices that are strictly focused on European cultures and beliefs.
What is Eurocentric
Thinking that a certain characteristic (usually negative) is true of all people within a group, without empirical basis.
What is stereotyping or stereotype
Hidden perspectives. They can lead to prejudicial actions if they are not acknowledged and reversed.
What are implicit biases.
the tool we used in class to evaluate the position of someone's progress towards equity.
What is the (equity) Action Continuum
When a person of color believes in their group is negative and inferior, often unconsciously.
What is internalized oppression.
A common term that refers to a variety of people of color.
Blaming a group of people for something that is a product of the established system, and not a person or people.
What is (racial) scapegoating.
Taking another culture's practices and using them without the oppression they caused for the original group.
What is cultural appropriation.
This is used to ask questions about impact before, during, and after the development or implementation of rules or policies.
What is an Equity Framework.
The theory that we are all made up layers of identity, each with their own position on a privilege and oppression spectrum, which combine to create unique privilege or oppression positions for each of us. Kimberle Crenshaw.
What is Intersectionality.
Achieved record representation in local, state, and federal leadership roles immediately succeeding the most oppressive event in the history of the nation.
Who are Black Americans
What is colorblindness
at a small, individual scale, which singularly can go unperceived or seem unintentional.
What is a microagression.
This is the process of viewing a situation with the perspective of parity for all.
What is an equity lens.
The belief that certain minoritized demographics are able to excel because of their cultural beliefs. This false logic leads to cultural racism, or the belief that certain cultures don't center hard work therefore they fail.
What is the model minority.
Have pan ethnic labels that mostly connect to colonial powers and their cultures; these labels notably exclude African and Indigenous heritage.
Who are Latinx, Hispanic
When a person/people do not actively work against bias, racism, or oppression, it is said they are ...
What is in collusion, colluding
What is the culture of white supremacy
Being actively involved in undoing racism.
What is anti-racism.
A telling statistic about the ongoing disparity between racial group achievement; shows many people of color in socio economic disadvantage.
What is the racial wealth gap.
The socially acceptable term used to refer to the thousands of nations who were displaced and oppressed by settler colonialism.
Who are Native Americans.
A highly negative psychological, emotional, and even physical response that is the outcome ongoing, harsh racially motivated harmful events
The state of undoing all systemic oppression (even figurative bondage), especially the carceral (jail) system. Also what we called the state of eliminating slavery.
What is abolition.
Pan ethnic label that includes over 20 Asian ethnicities, plus 4 other ethnic designators.
What is APIMEDA