• 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.

• Exurban: relating to a region beyond the suburbs around cities where not many houses are built and where rich people often live

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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.

 

• Privilege: A special advantage or right possessed by an individual or group that can be either earned or unearned. 

• Racial equity: is the condition that would be achieved if one's racial identity no longer predicted, in a statistical sense, how one fares. When we use the term, we are thinking about racial equity as one part of racial justice, and thus we also include work to address root causes of inequities, not just their manifestation. This includes elimination of policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages that reinforce differential outcomes by race or that fail to eliminate them.
  

 

• Structural Privilege: Having access to opportunities and resources as a result of social, economic, political, geographic, cultural, and other systems.

 

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