Diversity Vocabulary

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified belief or idea of a particular type of person or thing

• Microaggression

• Discrimination

• Stereotype

• Advocate

Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution 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.

• Bias

• Racism

• Stereotype

• Inequity

Discrimination

• The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability

• a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular case or policy.

• fair and unjust

• preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

• Advocate

• Bias

• Equitable

• Prejudice

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 minority

• Microaggression

• Stereotype

• Prejudice

• Advocate

Advocate

• Lack of fairness or justice

• unjust or prejudicial treatment

• widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea

• a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy

Fair and impartial

• Equitable

• Inequity

• Advocate

• Microaggression

Inequity

• Fair and impartial

• systematic representations, repeated in a variety of forms from jokes and cartoons to news broadcasts, feature films, and television series.

• a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy

• lack of fairness or justice

Media Stereotypes

• in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• Systematic representations, repeated in a variety of forms from jokes and cartoons to news broadcasts, feature films, and television series. A descriptive or designative aspect based on physical appearance. People are judged from a particular perspective or point of view.

• A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.

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

Bias

• Lack of fairness or justice

• prejudice, discrimination or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership

• prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

• fair and impartial