exam 1

racism lies only in individual ideas and beliefs. There are racists and non-racists (good and bad people)

• conflates (legal process (de jure) with real racial progress (de facto)

• the assumption that because there are some people of color in high ranking positions this means that racism has been entirely eradicated

•  the history of racial oppression is no longer relevant today

•  the idea that there is only one type of racism that does not change

treating other racial groups unfairly in everyday actions (at the micro level)

policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race or ethnic group.

the process where people of color unknowingly accept and support the terms of their own domination

• refers to common cultural characteristics that connect people together

race varies across social and historical contexts, and in some societies race does not exist