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  • Home
    • About Us
    • FAQs
    • Glossary
  • Learn
    • What is Equity?
    • Equity Matters
    • Equity Updates
  • Plan
    • Opportunity Index
    • Tools & Guides
  • Act
    • Best Practices
    • Participate

GLOSSARY

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  • Bias: Prejudice; an inclination or preference, especially one that affects fair judgment. ​​
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  • Equality: A concept of sameness that assumes everyone should be treated in the same way regardless of differences.

  • ​Equity: A concept of fairness that assumes that those with different needs should receive different levels of treatment.
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  • Explicit Bias: Biases that we are aware of and are expressed directly.
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  • Historically Marginalized: Groups of people who throughout the past have been discriminated against and denied certain opportunities that people of other groups have had.

  • Implicit Bias: Biases that are part of our subconscious, activated involuntarily, and expressed indirectly.
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  • Individual Racism: Our personal generalizations, stereotypes, and biases about people because of their race.

  • Institutional Racism: The policies, practices, and procedures that work better for white community members than for community members of color.

  • People of color: For the purposes of the communication on this website, this category refers to people who are non-white.

  • Structural Racism: The system of policies, practices, and procedures that work together and sustain one-another to create and reinforce disparate outcomes across races.
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