Across
- 4. Language Substituting terms related to race or racial identity with seemingly race-neutral terms that disguise explicit and/or implicit bias
- 6. The belief that one type of skin tone is superior or inferior to another within a racial group. It occurs within all races, as all have varieties of skin tone and hair color
- 8. The practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
- 10. A person 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
- 13. The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught
- 14. Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group; referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group
- 17. Slights and snubs based on racial discrimination; some are unintentional
- 19. Authentically bringing traditionally excluded individuals and/or groups into processes, activities, and decision/policy making in a way that shares power
- 20. The act of teaching knowledge to others and the act of receiving knowledge from someone else
- 21. Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
- 22. The creation of relationships, societies, communities, organizations, and collective spaces characterized by equity, fairness, and the implementation of systems for the allocation of goods, services, benefits, and rewards that support the full participation of each human and the promotion of their full humanness
- 23. The practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce
- 26. The active resistance against colonial powers, and a shifting of power towards political, economic, educational, cultural, psychic independence and power that originate from a colonized nation's own indigenous culture
Down
- 1. The concept that individuals are to be treated in a manner that is equitable and fair
- 2. Race prejudice + social and institutional power
- 3. The unequal treatment of members of various groups based on race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion and other categories
- 5. The work of actively opposing racism by advocating for changes in political, economic, and social life
- 6. A social system of meaning and custom that is developed by a group of people to assure its adaptation and survival. These groups are distinguished by a set of unspoken rules that shape values, beliefs, habits, patterns of thinking, behaviors and styles of communication
- 7. A made-up social construct, and not an actual biological fact; categorization schemes invented by scientists to support worldviews that viewed some groups of people as superior and some as inferior
- 9. The systematic subjugation of one social group by a more powerful social group for the social, economic, and political benefit of the more powerful social group
- 11. A two-part formation that both voids Blackness of value, while systematically marginalizing Black people and their issues
- 12. Shifting between two or more different languages, dialects, accents or modes of speaking or modifying one's behavior or appearance to adapt to different situations or be accepted by different groups
- 15. The specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color; a constellation of processes and practices rather than as a discrete entity
- 16. An analytic framework for assessing how factors such as race, gender, and class interact to shape individual life chances and societal patterns of stratification
- 18. It is all-inclusive and recognizes everyone and every group as part of the whole that should be valued
- 24. An embedded prejudice that is largely unconscious and that results in the discriminatory treatment of others
- 25. Unearned social power accorded by the formal and informal institutions of society to ALL members of a dominant group