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Racial Equity

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MICRO LEVEL

INTERNALIZED RACISM

INTERPERSONAL RACISM

The set of private beliefs, prejudices, and ideas that individuals have about the behaviors of whiteness and the inferiority of people of color. Among people of color, it manifests as internalized oppression. Among white people, it manifests as internalized racial superiority.

The expression of racism between individuals. It occurs when individuals interact and their private beliefs affect their interactions

STRATEGIES:

  • Mentoring
  • Support groups, mono-racial, gender, identity group caucuses
  • Healing programs
  • Counseling

STRATEGIES:

  • Diversity trainings-prejudice reduction and cultural competency
  • Cross/inter-identity group dialogues
  • Diverse dinners and community events

MACRO LEVEL

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

STRUCTURAL RACISM

The discriminatory treatment, unfair policies and practices, inequitable opportunities and impacts within organizations and institutions, based of race, that routinely produce racially inequitable outcomes for people of color and advantages for white people. Individuals within institutions take on the power of the institutions when they reinforce racial inequalities.

A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequality. It is racial bias among institutions and across society. It involves the cumulative and compounding effects of an array of societal factors including the history, culture, ideology and systematically privilege white people and disadvantage people of color.

STRATEGIES:

  • Changing policy (laws, etc.)
  • Challenging discriminatory and exclusionary practices
  • Demanding inclusive power, decision making, resource sharing

STRATEGIES:

  • Highlighting history, root causes, cumulative impacts
  • Challenging common stereotypes, biases cultural/media images
  • Exposing myths; explaining justice
  • Advancing socially conscious remedies
  • Promoting values  of equity, inclusions, access and dignity of all