ethnic and race definitions

Racialization formation

the process of ascribing racial identities to a group, practice, or situation that did not previously identify or fit into racial terms

Racial Formation

the sociohistorical process by which social, economic, and political forces create, inhabit, transform, and destroy racial categories

Third World Liberation Front

a multiracial coalition of student activists—primarily uniting Black, Asian American, Chicano, and Native American student organizations

Social constructs

an idea or category created and accepted by the people in a society, rather than existing as a natural or biological law

Systemic racism

how societal structures, laws, policies, and cultural norms work together to produce and perpetuate racial group inequity and unfair treatment of people of color.