Vocabulary
The social construction and categorization of people on the basis of perceived shared physical traits that result in the maintenance of a sociopolitical hierarchy
What is Race?
The “institutional domination and sense of racial–ethnic superiority of one social group over others,” justified by culturally constructed markers like language use, religious practice, immigrant status, social welfare dependency, and the profiling of criminal and terrorist behavior
What is cultural racism?
People who have ancestry from the biggest continent in the world
What is Asian? or Who are Asians?
In general, which is the better term to refer to an Indigenous group: nation, tribe or Indians?
What is nation?
When certain geographic areas are labeled as places where only certain oppressed or marginalized groups of people can live.
What is redlining?
The values, beliefs, language, rituals, traditions, and other behaviors that are passed from one generation to another within any socially definable group.
What is culture?
The collection of policies, practices, and procedures of societal institutions—such as educational institutions, government, health care, employers, housing, financial institutions, the arts, entertainment and media, and knowledge—that marginalizes and subjugates nondominant racial groups in a given society
What is institutional racism? OR What is systemic racism?
the United Nations has developed an understanding of the term based on self-identification; historical continuity to pre-colonial and/or pre-settler societies; links to territories and resources, distinct social, economic and political systems and possession of distinct languages, cultures and beliefs”
What is Indigenous?
In Canada, refer to the Indigenous Peoples collectively using this term
What is "Indigenous Peoples' or "Aboriginal Peoples"?
OR
What is "specify the nation or people if possible"?
What system has 3x higher rates of prosecution and sentencing for Black people than white people?
What is the justice or legal system?
A characterization of people based on having a shared culture (e.g., language, food, music, dress, values, and beliefs) related to common ancestry and shared history
What is ethnicity?
Occurs when individuals from socially and politically dominant racial groups behave in ways that diminish and harm people who belong to other racial groups. A form of bigotry (negative attitudes about groups different from one’s own, not necessarily tied to race) or prejudice (a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience).
What is interpersonal racism?
Instead of labeling a group of people inappropriately, do this instead
What is "specify the nation or people if possible"?
In Australia, the Indigenous Peoples may identify as this.
What is “Aboriginal People” or “Aboriginal Australians” and “Torres Strait Islander People” or “Torres Strait Island Australians.” Refer to specific groups when people use these terms to refer to themselves (e.g., Anangu Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte).?
What system has 36% of those from ethnic minorities living in poverty compared to 17% White people?
What is the finance system or economic system?
Unearned power that is afforded to White people on the basis of race, rather than earned merit, that protects White people from the consequences of being racist and benefitting from systemic racism
What is White privilege?
A notion of interpersonal impact experienced by people of color, in which people hold negative societal beliefs and stereotypes about themselves—for example, about complexion and color (i.e., colorism) that reinforce the superiority of White people and may lead to the self-perception of being devalued, worthless, and powerless
What is internalized racism?
Refers to American people of African ancestry.
What is African American?
In New Zealand, the Indigenous People may identify this way.
What is “Māori” or the “Māori people” (the proper spelling includes the diacritical macron over the “a”).?
What type of racism is it when the Body Mass Index is based on only persons from a dominant group?
What is "insitutional", "systemic" or "structural" racism?
The ideological belief that biological and cultural Whiteness is superior to all other races and ethnicities, as well as normal and healthy.
What is White supremacy?
The results from interconnected and synergistic effects of institutional racism. It includes the failure to correct previous laws and practices that were explicitly or effectively racist
What is structural racism?
What should you do when writing about people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latin@, Latine, Latinx, Chicano, or another related designation?
What is "consult with the individuals with whom you are working to determine the appropriate terminology"? OR
What is "Whenever possible, use terms that people use to describe themselves."?
A written and/or verbal statement to recognize the Indigenous past, present, and future of a particular location and to understand [one’s] place within that relationship. These statements should also include substantive action. Otherwise, it is performative allyship.
What is an Indigenous land acknowledgement?
These are characteristics of this idea: perfectionism, paternalism, power hoarding, quantity over quality, fear of open conflict, objectivity.
What is white supremacy?