Critical Race Theory

3. The ability to understand and interact effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds.
5. The ways in which institutions, policies, and practices are designed to maintain racial inequalities.
8. The fear of confirming a negative stereotype about one's group that can lead to underperformance in academic or professional settings.
9. The lesson that race is a social concept used to exploit people of color
10. Those most commonly affected by the topics Critical Race Theory covers.
11. Subtle, everyday actions or comments that communicate hostility or disrespect towards people of color.
12. The belief that race does not matter and that people should be treated as individuals, ignoring the ways in which race affects people's experiences and opportunities.

1. The advantages and benefits that white people receive simply by virtue of being white in a society that is structured to favor whiteness.
2. a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
4. The socially constructed categories that divide people into racial groups based on physical characteristics.
6. The compensation or repayment for past harms inflicted on people of color, such as slavery, segregation, and discrimination.
7. The concept that different aspects of identity, such as race, gender, class, and sexuality, intersect and interact to create unique experiences of oppression and privilege.
13. The systemic and institutionalized power structures that maintain advantages and privileges for dominant racial groups while subordinating people of color.