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- Ally - any person that actively promotes and aspires to advance the culture of inclusion through intentional, positive and conscious efforts that benefit people as a whole.
- Sponsor - a person or institution that vocally and actionably supports the work of those from underrepresented groups in all contexts, but specifically in situations that will help boost their standing and reputations.
- Bias
- Explicit (conscious) - a person is very clear about their feelings and attitudes, and related behaviors are conducted with intent. This type of bias is processed neurologically at a conscious level as declarative, semantic memory, and in words. Conscious bias in its extreme is characterized by overt negative behavior that can be expressed through physical and verbal harassment or through more subtle means such as exclusion.
- Implicit (unconscious) - operates outside of a person’s awareness and can be in direct contradiction to a person’s espoused beliefs and values. What is so dangerous about implicit bias is that it automatically seeps into a person’s affect or behavior and is outside of the full awareness of that person.
- Cultural competency - a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professions to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
- Cultural humility - the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the person
- Privilege - a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
- Race vs. Ethnicity
- Race - a social construct that categorizes people by skin color.
- Ethnicity - a category of people who identify with each other, usually on the basis of presumed similarities such as a common language, ancestry, history, society, culture, nation or social treatment within their residing area.
- Prejudice - a preconceived belief/thought about a group/individual based on stereotypes.
- Discrimination - the act of treating someone differently based on some aspect of their identity.
- Racism - a conscious or unconscious belief in the superiority of a certain race coupled with the power to determine one’s own reality and influence the reality of others.
- Racial Reconciliation - the spiritual practice of seeking loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God and one another, and striving to heal and transform injustice and brokenness in ourselves, our communities, institutions, and society.
- Restorative Justice - a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused by criminal behavior (the term injustice is preferred). It is best accomplished through cooperative processes that include all stakeholders. This can lead to transformation of people, relationships and communities.