anti-racism
Opposing racial prejudice
Anti-racism is active opposition to racism, going beyond passive non-racism to challenge racist policies, behaviors, and systems.
The term implies that neutrality is insufficient—that failing to actively oppose racism perpetuates it.
Anti-racism training, anti-racist education, and anti-racist policies aim to identify and dismantle racial inequities rather than simply avoid personal prejudice.
Guaranteed individual legal protections
- Black Lives MatterCivil rights movement against racist violence
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- integrationCombining into a whole
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
emancipation · Pan-Africanism · Négritude · Black Power · decolonization · freedom struggle · liberation · suffrage
Same status for all
- inclusionBeing made part
- diversityState of varied elements
- dignityInnate personal worth
- respectRegard with honor
fairness · equity · belonging · multiculturalism · pluralism · tolerance · acceptance · humanity
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- marchRhythmic group walk
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
organizing · grassroots · petition · advocacy · solidarity · resistance · sit-in · rally
State of perceiving reality
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- bias trainingEducation about unconscious prejudice
- cultural competenceEffective cross-group interaction ability
- privilegeExclusive right or benefit
intersectionality · implicit bias · microaggressions · unlearning · curriculum · representation · media literacy · history
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- restorative justiceConflict resolution through mutual healing
- civil rights lawLegislation ensuring equal treatment
- discrimination lawLegal protections against bias
legal reform · affirmative action · police reform · accountability · sentencing reform · voting rights · housing discrimination · redlining
Unity among allies
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- advocatePublic cause supporter
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
- upstanderOne who intervenes against injustice
partnership · collaboration · mentorship · amplifying · listening · accountability · bystander intervention · calling in
civil rights
Guaranteed individual legal protections
- Black Lives MatterCivil rights movement against racist violence
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- integrationCombining into a whole
abolition · emancipation · Pan-Africanism · Négritude · Black Power · decolonization · freedom struggle · liberation · suffrage · Harlem Renaissance
equality
Same status for all
respect · fairness · equity · belonging · multiculturalism · pluralism · tolerance · acceptance · humanity · empathy
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- marchRhythmic group walk
- boycottOrganized economic protest
campaign · organizing · grassroots · petition · advocacy · solidarity · resistance · sit-in · rally · picketing
awareness
State of perceiving reality
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- bias trainingEducation about unconscious prejudice
- cultural competenceEffective cross-group interaction ability
privilege · intersectionality · implicit bias · microaggressions · unlearning · curriculum · representation · media literacy · history · dialogue
equity
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- restorative justiceConflict resolution through mutual healing
- civil rights lawLegislation ensuring equal treatment
discrimination law · legal reform · affirmative action · police reform · accountability · sentencing reform · voting rights · housing discrimination · redlining · systemic change
solidarity
Unity among allies
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- advocatePublic cause supporter
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
upstander · partnership · collaboration · mentorship · amplifying · listening · accountability · bystander intervention · calling in · showing up
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- Racial Justicecivil rights, equal rights, desegregation, minority rights, NAACP
- social equitydisability rights, diversity training, intersectionality, minority rights, gender equality
- social justiceprivilege, white privilege, economic justice, equal opportunity, disability justice
- race studiescritical race theory, white privilege, intersectionality, colorblindness, implicit bias
- Black Thoughtdouble consciousness, Pan-Africanism, Afrocentrism, W.E.B. Du Bois, womanism
anti-racismracism
Prejudice based on ethnicity
white supremacy · bigotry · racial hatred · white nationalism · segregationism
anti-racismcolorblindness
Impaired hue discrimination
willful ignorance · complicity · neutrality · complacency · do-nothingism
anti-racismscientific racism
Pseudoscience justifying ethnic hierarchy