Everyday Prejudice

Vocabulary:

• Everyday prejudice: Indigenous and radicalized people have faced centuries of systematic exclusion that continues to shape their experiences today. Marginalization of these individuals operates through multiple channels: economic exclusion (limited access to traditional lands and resources), political marginalization (under-representation in decision making processes), and cultural marginalization (suppression of language, perspective, tradition, and expression of feelings)

• Baldwin-Buckley Debate: In England, debate over “free people” (black people) who were free but still experienced different circumstances, debate over opportunity, 50ish years old. Buckley refers to white people in the south as the ‘advanced race’ and says they have the right to have more opportunity that black people

• Target: Research historically fixates on prejudice by the perpetrators, not the targets who are the experts of the prejudice, asking if they experience it individually or as part of an entire social group

• Microaggression: Unequal and harmful treatment (discrimination) that isn’t as overt/blatant (intentional, visible, easily documented). Rather it is subtle (less visible and obvious). The perpetrator internalized the behavior as ‘normal’. Can be seen in hostile humor, patronizing speech, and controlling speech. It is covert (hidden, purposeful, and oven maliciously motivated). Target has to learn to identify them