Anti-Racism Crossword - Building Equity
Across
- 5. The active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably. (2 words)
- 9. The act of causing two groups or people to become friendly again after a disagreement.
- 11. This term refers to a tendency to portray Muslims and Arabs in media and pop culture as exotic
- 12. This psychological theory says that bad experiences like racism, poverty and abuse can affect not just an individual but also their children and grandchildren through toxic stress.
- 14. Not investing in neighbourhoods with nonwhite residents.
- 15. Stereotypes of Brown people in this popular animated sitcom.
- 16. Is a form of racism profiling that violates the Human Rights code's of discrimination in the delivery of a service.
Down
- 1. Racist attitudes and behaviors that indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness. (2 words)
- 2. This term describes the elimination or replacement of people of color with white characters when portraying the past. (2 words)
- 3. The process of people with privilege standing up and taking on the problems borne of oppression as their own.
- 4. An acronym for ‘Black, Indigenous, People of Colour,’ meant to unite all people of colour in the work for liberation.
- 6. 41% of people experiencing homelessness in Calgary have this ancestry.
- 7. A legal requirement that states that any public service ordinarily available to all other children must be made available to First Nations children without delay or denial. (2 words)
- 8. In African-American households, when parents have this conversation with their children about avoiding altercations with police, they call it this. (2 words)
- 10. Judgements and thought processes that happen without you even knowing it.
- 13. Earlier this year, this Treaty 7 First Nation launched an information gathering exercise to document racist and discriminatory behaviour.