UWAS-C0010 - UWAS Currents: Decolonize your studies, 04.03.2021-15.04.2021
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Glossary for terminology related to decolonizing
This is a collaborative list of words and terminology related to the subject of decolonizing.
Feel free to contribute, when you think of or find out about words that would be helpful in the process of decolonizing your studies! Be sure to include the source to your entry.
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Western colonialismWestern colonialism, a political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. | ||
White PrivilegeA privilege is a right, favor, advantage, immunity, specially granted to one individual or group, and withheld from another. (Websters) White privilege is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of: (1) Preferential prejudice for and treatment of white people based solely on their skin color and/or ancestral origin from Europe; and (2) Exemption from racial and/or national oppression based on skin color and/or ancestral origin from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Arab world. U.S. institutions and culture (economic, legal, military, political, educational, entertainment, familial and religious) privilege peoples from Europe over peoples from the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Arab world. In a white supremacy system, white privilege and racial oppression are two sides of the same coin. “White peoples were exempt from slavery, land grab and genocide, the first forms of white privilege (in the future US).” (Virginia Harris and Trinity Ordoña, “Developing Unity among Women of Color: Crossing the Barriers of Internalized Racism and Cross Racial Hostility,” in Making Face, Making Soul: Hacienda Caras. Edited by Gloria Anzaldúa. SF: Aunt Lute Press, 1990. p. 310). | |
White SupremacyWhite supremacy is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of the European continent; for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth, power and privilege. | |