terminology

Why the “B” in Black is Capitalized
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Why the “B” in Black is Capitalized
Nicole Cardoza
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Terms Capitalizing “Black” when referring to people in a racial, ethnic, or cultural context is to make language more inclusive and accurate.

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Identity Media & Culture Race & Ethnicity
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The Loaded Language ABCs
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The Loaded Language ABCs
Andrew Lee
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Discussions of political or social issues commonly include loaded language that inhibits clear conversation. 

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Media & Culture
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Learn about the “one-drop rule”.

Learn about the “one-drop rule”.
Andrew Lee
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The borders of racial categories are malleable, contested, and change over time. But believing that demographic changes will inevitably cause the racial hierarchy to fade away ignores centuries of evidence to the contrary.

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History Media & Culture
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Unpacking the Term Hispanic and the Homogenizing of Diasporas
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Unpacking the Term Hispanic and the Homogenizing of Diasporas
Team ARD
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Hispanic and Latino have been used to describe people with roots in Spain or Latin America, but the terms blur multiple diasporas’ experiences and identities.

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Media & Culture
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Unpack “Black-on-Black crime”.
Tiffany Onyejiaka
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Aristotle said, “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime” (Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality). But in the wake of violence in impoverished Black communities, we often only hear the same refrain: “Why is no one doing anything about this?” The idea that nobody in Black communities works to stop community violence is racist, classist, and false.

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Media & Culture Social Justice
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Understand whiteness.
Andrew Lee
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But race is a social construct, and social constructs have social histories. Our modern understanding of race was created at a specific historical juncture in colonial Virginia. Prior to that, it did not exist.

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History
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