Below are resources discussed in the podcast episode.
*H.U.E Podcast does not necessarily endorse the views of the resources below
Divided by Faith – Emerson and Smith
How To Be An Antiracist – Kendi
The below definitions are provided to the listener as a common ground on which to discuss concepts. Guests are not required to adhere to these definitions and may challenge/provide their own in the interview.
- Ethnicity: An individual’s national origin(s), heritage, and singular or multiple cultural identity
- Culture: The characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (Merriam Webster)
- Social Construct: An idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society (Merriam Webster)
- Race: A social construct where we attach social significance and meaning to certain physical characteristics (i.e. skin color). (Emerson and Smith, Divided by Faith)
- Note: the H.U.E Podcast recognizes there is only one biological race
- Racialized society: a society wherein race matters profoundly for differences in life experiences, life opportunities, and social relationships and a society that rewards or punishes along racial lines (Emerson and Smith, Divided by Faith)
- BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, People of Color; this acronym highlights the racialized caste system or hierarchy specifically in the U.S.
- Discrimination: Action based on prejudice. Everyone discriminates. (Diangelo, White Fragility)
- Racism :Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities (Kendi, How to be an Antiracist)
- Antiracist: One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea. (Kendi, How to be an Antiracist)
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