A contemporary racial ideology that holds the belief that people, institutions and policy makers should try to ignore race in order to claim a desire to treat all persons equally but having the effect of justifying contemporary racial oppression. Color-blindness uses a set of ideas, phrases, and stories to discount racial oppression. Furthermore, color-blindness plays on the myth that the…
Racism is a doctrine or teaching, without scientific support, that does three things. First, it claims to find racial differences in things like character and intelligence. Second, racism asserts the superiority of one race over another or others. Finally, it seeks to maintain that dominance through a complex system of beliefs, behaviors, use of language and policies. Racism reflects and…
Race equity is a path from hope to justice— where People of Color and Indigenous people (POCI) use their personal agency to build systems of healing and liberation that uplift and value the human dignity of all people. Race equity in education means the humanity of POCI students is honored and celebrated in all education spaces, and the racial predictability…
Explicit acknowledgment of the workings of race and racism in social contexts or in one’s personal life. An understanding of white privilege, owning the realities of racism in our contemporary society and taking responsibility for them, is crucial.
The culmination of the many inequalities that can impact people and their ability to succeed academically.
Implicit bias is a mental process that stimulates negative attitudes about people who are not members of one’s own “in group.” Implicit racial bias leads to discrimination against people who are not members of one’s own racial group. Implicit bias affects the way that we think about “out groups” and it influences the way that we react to and interact…
Experiences–shared by communities such as genocide, slavery, forced relocation, and destruction of cultural practices–can result in cumulative emotional and psychological wounds that are carried across generations.
Ethnocentrism is characterized by or based on the attitude that one’s own group is superior.
The Minnesota Learning English for Academic Proficiency and Success (LEAPS) Act defines SLIFE as an English learner with interrupted formal education who: Comes from a home where the language usually spoken is other than English, or who usually speaks a language other than English. Enters school in the United States after grade 6. Has at least two years less schooling…