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Oxford defines racism as prejudice, discrimination, or
antagonism directed against a person or people based on their
membership of a particular racial ethnic group, typically one that
is a minority or marginalized. Merriam-Webster defines racism
more simply as belief that certain races of people are by birth
and nature superior to others; or, discrimination or hatred
based on race.
Racism is also referred to as a variety of practices, beliefs, social
relations, and phenomena that work to produce a racial hierarchy
and social structure that yield superiority, power, and privilege
for some, and discrimination and oppression for others. Racism
typically manifests in seven different forms: representational,
ideological, discursive, interactional, institutional, systemic,
and structural.
It is important to know the faces of racism,
so that when it shows up, it is recognized
and confronted.
