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"Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Someday we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you. "
"Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Someday we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you. "
Maya Angelou
RACE:
A hierarchical classification system of human beings invented by Europeans who would come to be categorized as white. This hierarchy uses ‘whiteness’ as the model of human worth for the purpose of establishing and maintaining social, economic, and political power.
The system draws on physical characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, and bone structure to reinforce the idea that race is biological. However, there is no scientific basis for race.
*Adapted from the Center for Racial justice in Education
RACISM & ANTI-RACISM-
Racism= Prejudice + power- Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race- Reni-Edoo Lodge
Racist: "One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea." How to Be an AntiRacist, Chapter 1, by Ibram X. Kendi
Anti-Racist: "One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea."
Ally: Someone who makes the commitment and effort to recognize their privilege (based on gender, class, race, sexual identity, etc.) and work in solidarity with oppressed groups in the struggle for justice. Allies understand that it is in their own interest to end all forms of oppression, even those from which they may benefit in concrete ways. -OpenSource Leadership Strategies, “The Dynamic System of Power, Privilege and Oppressions.”
Anti-Oppression: the act of educating yourself about oppressive systems and then working to dismantle them. It is the act of fighting back against oppression in your daily life. Anti-Racism is part of the larger Anti-Oppression movement.
Bias:
Bias: Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.
Implicit Bias: Unconscious stereotypes toward an individual or group of people.
Subconscious/Unconscious Bias: Learned stereotypes that are automatic, unintentional, deeply ingrained, universal, and able to influence behavior.
Culture: -How To Be an Antiracist, Chapter 7, by Ibram X. Kendi
Cultural Racist: One who is creating a cultural standard and imposing a cultural hierarchy among racial groups.
Cultural Antiracist: One who is rejecting cultural standards and equalizing cultural differences among racial groups.
Cultural Appropriation: Theft of cultural elements for one’s own use, commodification, or profit—including symbols, art, language, customs, etc.—often without understanding, acknowledgement, or respect for its value in the original culture. Results from the assumption of a dominant (i.e., white) culture’s right to take other cultural elements. -Colours of Resistance Archive
Ethnicity:
Ethnicity: In sociology, ethnicity is a concept referring to a shared culture and a way of life. This can be reflected in language, religion, material culture such as clothing and cuisine, and cultural products such as music and art. Ethnicity is often a major source of social cohesion as well as social conflict.-Thoughtco
Ethnic Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between racialized ethnic groups and are substantiated by racist ideas about racialized ethnic groups.
Ethnic Antiracism: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between racialized ethnic groups and are substantiated by antiracist ideas about racialized ethnic groups. -How to Be an AntiRacist Chapter 5 by Ibram X. Kendi
Gender:
Gender: either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female.
Gender Racism: Powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between race genders and are substantiated by racist ideas about race genders. -How to Be an AntiRacist, Chapter 14, by Ibram X. Kendi
Intersectionality: A prism to see the interactive effects of various forms of discrimination and disempowerment. It looks at the way that racism, many times, interacts with patriarchy, heterosexism, classism, xenophobia—seeing that the overlapping vulnerabilities created by these systems actually create specific kinds of challenges. - Critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw to Them. magazine
Microaggressions: "Unlike some other forms of prejudice and discrimination, the perpetrator of a microaggression may not even be aware that their behavior is hurtful. While microaggressions are sometimes conscious and intentional, on many occasions microaggressions may reflect the perpetrator’s implicit biases about marginalized group members." - What Is A Microaggression? Everyday Insults with Harmful Effects, by Elizabeth Hopper
Structural & System Racism:
Structural Racism: "A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity. It identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with “whiteness” and disadvantages associated with “color” to endure and adapt over time. Structural racism is not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice. Instead it has been a feature of the social, economic and political systems in which we all exist."
Systemic Racism: "In many ways “systemic racism” and “structural racism” are synonymous. If there is a difference between the terms, it can be said to exist in the fact that a structural racism analysis pays more attention to the historical, cultural and social psychological aspects of our currently racialized society."
-Aspen Institute: Glossary for Understanding the Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity Analysis
White Privilege:
An absence of the negative consequences of racism. -Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni-Eddo Lodge, p. 86
"White privilege, or “historically accumulated white privilege,” as we have come to call it, refers to whites’ historical and contemporary advantages in access to quality education, decent jobs and liveable wages, homeownership, retirement benefits, wealth and so on."- Aspen Institute: Glossary for Understanding the Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity Analysis
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