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Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

there is no such thing as a not-racist idea, only racist ideas and antiracist ideas.
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism
Race (CRT)

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Zeus Leonardo

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The Color of Supremacy: (...)

Whites today did not participate in slavery but they surely recreate white supremacy on a daily basis.
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism
Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

the current acceptance of the status quo is an example of institutional racism.
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism
Race (CRT)

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Richard Delgado

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Critical Race Theory An (...)

Many critical race theorists and social scientists hold that racism is perversive, systemic, and deeply ingrained. If we take this perspective, then no white member of society is quite so innocent.
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism

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Pamela Perry, Alexis Shotwell

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Relational Understanding And White (...)

The last four decades have seen a proliferation of research about the complex and largely hidden ways that white racism and white racial dominance pervade U.S. culture and institutions. Sociologists, in particular, have played an instrumental role in revealing how white people’s feelings, attitudes, and behaviors consistently reproduce the laws and structures that privilege them, even when they conscientiously espouse principles of equality. An implicit goal of this research has been to generate greater understanding of how to eradicate racial inequalities, and frequently sociologists have formulated sophisticated and important accounts that support this kind of social justice work.
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

Racism is a powerful collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity and are substantiated by racist ideas.
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

RACIST: One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.
ANTIRACIST: One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism

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Leith Mullings

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Interrogating Racism: Toward An (...)

What can we definitively say about racism? Racism is a relational concept. It is a set of practices, structures, beliefs, and representations that transforms certain forms of perceived differences, generally regarded as indelible and unchangeable, into inequality. It works through modes of dispossession, which have included subordination, stigmatization, exploitation, exclusion, various forms of physical violence, and sometimes genocide. Racism is maintained and perpetuated by both coercion and consent and is rationalized through paradigms of both biology and culture. It is, to varying degrees at specific temporal and spatial points, interwoven with other forms of inequality, particularly class, gender, sexuality, and (...)
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Aspect: 01. Systemic Racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

All forms of racism are overt if our antiracist eyes are open to seeing racist policy in racial inequity.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

It is one of the ironies of antiracism that we must identify racially in order to identify the racial privileges and dangers of being in our bodies.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

Terminating racial categories is potentially the last, not the first, step in the antiracist struggle.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism

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Cheryl E. Matias, Janiece (...)

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Breakin’ Down Whiteness In (...)

Thus, critical whiteness studies become a framework to deconstruct the material, physical, emotional, and political power of whiteness. Used in conjunction with other critical theories of race, critical whiteness study provides a ying to the yang studies of race. In understanding how race and racism impact people of color - a knowledge set that can be applied to teaching urban diverse student populations - the study of critical whiteness provides teachers, many of whom are white, with a process of learning their own whiteness and how the exertions of whiteness create a violent condition within which people of color must (...)
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

To be an antiracist isa radical choice in the face of this history, requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.” What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as (...)
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

But if racial discrimination is defined as treating, considering, or making a distinction in favor or against an individual based on that person’s race, then racial discrimination is not inherently racist. The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism

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Cheryl E. Matias, Janiece (...)

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Breakin’ Down Whiteness In (...)

The hegemony of whiteness has so naturalized itself within the field of U.S. education that it goes undetected, despite the major implications it imposes on the educational equity of students of color (Leonardo 2009; Sleeter 2001; Solomona et al. 2005). If racism is the symptom, then enactments of whiteness that uphold white supremacy is the disease; to cure such a disease we cannot simply apply antiracist approaches without thoroughly understanding the disease itself. In order to completely teach diversity and antiracist theories in our course, we first committed ourselves to teaching the manifestations of whiteness that lie underneath the mere (...)
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

ANTIRACIST: One who is expressing the idea that racial groups are equals and none needs developing, and is supporting policy that reduces racial inequity.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

David Hume declared that all races are created unequal, but Thomas Jefferson seemed to disagree in 1776 when he declared “all men are created equal.” But Thomas Jefferson never made the antiracist declaration: All racial groups are equals.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Zeus Leonardo

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The Color of Supremacy: (...)

Whites have been able to develop discourses of anti-racism in the face of their unearned advantages.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

Antiracism is a powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to racial equity and are substantiated by antiracist ideas.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

An antiracist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

To be antiracist is to equalize the race-classes. To be antiracist is to root the economic disparities between the equal race-classes in policies, not people.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

CULTURAL ANTIRACIST: One who is rejecting cultural standards and equalizing cultural differences among racial groups.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

ANTIRACIST ANTICAPITALIST: One who is opposing racial capitalism.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

SPACE ANTIRACISM: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to racial equity between integrated and protected racialized spaces, which are substantiated by antiracist ideas about racialized spaces.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism
Race (CRT)

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Ibram X. Kendi

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How To Be An (...)

GENDER ANTIRACISM: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between race-genders and are substantiated by antiracist ideas about race-genders.
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Aspect: 02. Anti-racism

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Pamela Perry, Alexis Shotwell

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Relational Understanding And White (...)

In comparatively recent years, empirical studies of white antiracism have been emerging, shedding considerable light on what moves white people toward an antiracist praxis. What stands out prominently in this research is the decisive role played by affective knowledge - a felt recognition of the wrongs of racism. This is experienced through such emotions as empathy (Feagin 2000, 2004; O’Brien 2001), intersectional connection (Anthias 2001; Anthias and Lloyd 2002; Bonnett 1993; Moon and Flores 2000), or through the “political” becoming “personal” (Thompson 2001) - emotions that carry a felt sense of connectedness with others. Central to fostering these experiences, according (...)
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Aspect: 03. Practise

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Elaine Manglitz

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Challenging White Privilege In (...)

Within antiracist education, several authors have validated the strategy of starting with the concept of race and also examining Whiteness and White privilege as key factors in the perpetuation of racist discourses and practices (Dei, 1996; Epstein, 1993; Sleeter, 1995). Antiracism education critiques the construct of Whiteness, especially the practices and ideas that establish and promote White hegemony over others, and acknowledges race as a central axis of power. Antiracist education, practiced primarily in Canadian, British, and Australian contexts, is beginning to surface more in the United States, either within critical multiculturalism or as antiracist education. Multiculturalism, especially those branches (...)
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Aspect: 03. Practise

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Cheryl E. Matias, Janiece (...)

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Breakin’ Down Whiteness In (...)

Another implication this has for teacher education is to emotionally prepare teachers for the arduous task of antiracism and racial justice. People of color have been surviving the permanence of race (see Bell 1992) and thus have developed a sense of healthy callousness in order to live in a racist society (Lorde 2001). In doing so, teachers learn to develop emotional ovaries to engage in prolonged racial justice. Teachers who experience an emotional-based curriculum and pedagogy focused on deconstructing their own emotionality move beyond discomfort, guilt, sadness, defensiveness, and anger. Without doing so, they can easily revert to whiteness and (...)
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