1. (cultural) – Refers to representations, messages and stories conveying the idea that behaviors and values associated with white people or whiteness are automatically better or more normal than those associated with other racially defined groups.
MP Associates and Center for Assessment and Policy Development. (2013). www.racialequitytools.org glossary (PDF). Retrieved from http://www.racialequitytools.org/images/uploads/RET_Glossary913L.pdf.
2. (environmental) – Refers to racial discrimination in environmental policy-making and the enforcement of regulations and laws; the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste facilities; the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in communities; and the history of excluding people of colorfrom the leadership of the environmental movement.
Home – Colours of Resistance Archive. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2016, from http://www.coloursofresistance.org/definitions/environmental-racism/.
3. (individual) – The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
Racism [Def. 1.1]. (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries Online, Retrieved February 19, 2016, from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/racism.
4. (institutional) – Refers specifically to the ways in which institutional policies and practices create different outcomes for different racial groups.
Racial Equity Resource Guide. (n.d.). Glossary. Retrieved from http://www.racialequityresourceguide.org/about/glossary.
5. (internalized) – Internalized racism is the personal conscious or subconscious acceptance of the dominant society’s racist views, stereotypes and biases of one’s ethnic group. It gives rise to patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that result in discriminating, minimizing, criticizing, finding fault, invalidating and hating oneself while simultaneously valuing the dominant culture.
Lipsky, S. (1987). Internalized racism. Seattle, WA: Rational Island. Retrieved from http://www.div17.org/TAAR/media/topics/internalized-racism.php.
6. (structural) – The macro-level systems, social forces, institutions, ideology, and processes that interact with one another to generate and reinforce inequities among racial and ethnic groups.
powell, j. a. (2008). Structural racism: Building upon the insights of John Calmore. North Carolina Law Review. 2008; 86(3): pp. 791–816.
