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Working Definitions

Definitions that will be helpful for RHDs when conducting presentations/ conversations with students and/or staff. The definitions are a simple guide to formulate an educational consistency between staff members.

STEREOTYPE: A set of beliefs, generalized about a whole group of people.
PREJUDICE: A set of negative beliefs, generalized about a whole group of people.
POWER: Access and availability to resources needed to get what you want and to influence others.
OPPRESSION: 1. Prejudice and power.
2. A systematic social phenomenon based on the difference between social groups that involves ideological domination, institutional control, and the promulgation of the oppressor group's ideology, logic system and culture on the oppressed group. The result is the exploitation of one social group by another for its own benefit, real or imagined.

TARGETS:		 Members of a social identity group that are disenfranchised, exploited, and/or victimized in a variety of ways by the oppressor and the oppressor's system or institutions. Target groups are those which, are subject to containment, having their choices and movement restricted; being subjected to exploitation, marginalization, and powerlessness.
ADVERSARY: 1. A group or a personified force, contending against another.
2. Adverse; someone who confronts through hostility. Being or acting in a contrary way.
PRIVILEGE: A right that only some people have access or availability to because of their social group membership
ALLY: A member of the "majority" group who rejects the dominant ideology and takes action against oppression out of a belief that eliminating oppression will benefit the target group and the minority group.

Material adapted from: Adams, Maurianne, et al: Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. N.Y., NY Routledge, 1997 Blumenfeld, Warren J: Prejudice and Discrimination, Social Justice Reader. Amherst, MA Umass, 1993 Ederer, Jeff & Barnes Lori: Allies for Social Justice, www.wesleyan.edu/reslife/asj ACPA 2000

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