Definitions
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.”
Intersectionality
This type of violence began with the legacy of slave patrols and would later be expressed through enforcement of Jim Crow Laws.
Police Violence
The ideology that suggests the best way to end discrimination is to treat individuals as equally as possible, regardless of race, culture, or ethnicity.
Colorblindness
The state for a white person where a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, often triggering a range of defensive moves.
White Fragility
Modern day geographical segregation first enforced federally by the Federal Housing Administration under the New Deal alongside banks and the real estate industry.
Redlining
The unspoken agreement between white people to protect white advantage and not cause another white person to feel racially uncomfortable.
White Solidarity
Social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness.
Unconscious Bias
A 2012 study found that 67% of primary employees in the ____ system hold a bias against African Americans, which could impact the oath they took to "do no harm."
Healthcare
The false dichotomy that helps absolve white people of responsibility for their racist behavior and allows them to remove themselves from the need for further action.
The Good/Bad Binary
The specific type of prejudice against a group described in White Fragility as “the ultimate racial other” for white people.
Anti-Blackness
This American “war” disproportionately affected African American citizens and resulted in long lasting negative consequences for people of color in the criminal justice system.
War on Drugs
This is the name for sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnically diverse.
White Flight
The practice or policy designed to actively improve employment or educational opportunities for minoritized groups who have been discriminated against previously.
Affirmative Action
This concept discriminates against non-Western and non-white standards of dress, speech, timeliness, and work style.
Professionalism
The ideology that a white person knows what is best and, from a position of superiority, attempts to help or rescue a BIPOC person or community.
White Saviorism