Glossary of Terms & Other Resources

Glossary of Terms: Racism - prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

Prejudice - preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Anti-Racism - The policy or practice of opposing racism and promoting racial tolerance.

BIPOC - Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color

Critical Race Theory (CRT) - The view that race, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is socially constructed and that race, as a socially constructed concept, functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it.

Forms of Oppression : (although not exhaustive)

Slavery: 1619 - 1865 Jim Crow / Segregation - 1877 - 1965

White Supremacy - The belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups, in particular black or Jewish people.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.

Systemic Racism - Racism resulting from the inherent biases and prejudices of the policies and practices of social and political organizations, groups, or institutions.

Jim Crow - any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.

Segregation - The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

Redlining - Refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk. (Practically): process by which banks and other institutions refuse to offer mortgages or offer worse rates to customers in certain neighborhoods based on their racial and ethnic composition.

Mass Incarceration - the imprisonment of a large proportion of a population (used in particular with reference to the significant increase in the rate of incarceration in the US in the late 20th century).

Color Blindness - not influenced by racial prejudice. (This can often not validate the experience/personhood of people of Color.)

White Fragility - discomfort and defensiveness on the part of a white person when confronted by information about racial inequality and injustice.

Microaggression - A statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic group.

Outcomes

Black Wall street - former byname of the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in the early 20th century African Americans had created a self-sufficient prosperous business district. The term Black Wall Street was used until the Tulsa race riot of 1921. The name has also been applied more generally to districts of African American high economic activity.

Racial Wealth Gap - Systemic racism has contributed to the persistence of race-based gaps that manifest in many different economic indicators. The starkest divides are in measures of household wealth, reflecting centuries of white privilege that have made it particularly difficult for people of color to achieve economic security. For more visit: https://www.racialequityinstitute.com/blog/2019/10/9/the-racial-wealth-divide

Organizations Empowering Black Communities: Black Lives Matter Houston Pure Justice Restoring Justice Texas Organizing Project Texas Advocates for Justice Black Alliance for Just Immigration Equal Justice Initiative

Recommended Readings: Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman Disunity In Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart - Christina Cleveland United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity - Trilla J. New bell Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy Of The Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles, Soong Chan- Rah The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race - William James Jennings The Color of Compromise: The Trust about The American Church’s Complicity in Racism - Jemar Tisby Dreams With Me: Race , Love , and the Struggle We Must Win - John M. Perkins Fredrick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom - David W. Blight Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion - Johnathan Wilson-Hartgrove Be The Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation - Latasha Morrison

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond - Marc Lamont Hill Stamped from the beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X Kendi Self-Portrait in Black and White - Thomas Chatterton Williams Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland - Jonathan Metzl White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin Diangelo The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander Notes of A Native Son - James Baldwin The Color of Law - The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege - Ken Wytsma - Bryan Stevenson Waking Up White: And Finding Myself In The Story of Race - Debby Irving The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson

Recommended Films: 13th Just Mercy Selma The Central Park Five