GLOSSARY:

White Supremacy

White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them. Its purpose is the maintenance and defense of a system of wealth, power, and privilege. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism, and was a key justification for colonialism. It underlies a spectrum of contemporary movements including neo-Confederates, neo-Nazism and Christian Identity. 

Different forms of white supremacy put forth different conceptions of who is considered white (though the exemplar is generally light-skinned, blond-haired, and blue-eyed, or 'Aryan' traits most common in northern Europe), and groups of white supremacists identify various racial and ethnic enemies, most commonly those of African ancestry, Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, and Jews.

As a political ideology, it imposes and maintains social, political, historical, or institutional domination by white people. This ideology has been put into effect through socioeconomic and legal structures such as the Atlantic slave trade, Jim Crow laws in the United States, the White Australia policies from the 1890s to the mid-1970s, and apartheid in South Africa. In addition, this ideology is embodied in the "White power" social movement. Since the early 1980s, the White power movement has been committed to overthrowing the United States government and establishing a white homeland using paramilitary tactics.

In academic usage, particularly in critical race theory or intersectionality, "white supremacy" can also refer to a social system in which white people enjoy structural advantages (privilege) over other ethnic groups, on both a collective and individual level, despite formal legal equality.
Source:  Martinez, Elizabeth. "What is white supremacy?" (PDF). pym.org. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

Whiteness

The term white, referring to people, was created by Virginia slave owners and colonial rules in the 17th century. It replaced terms like Christian and Englishman to distinguish European colonists from Africans and indigenous peoples. European colonial powers established whiteness as a legal concept after Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, during which indentured servants of European and African descent had united against the colonial elite. The legal distinction of white separated the servant class on the basis of skin color and continental origin. The creation of ‘whiteness’ meant giving privileges to some, while denying them to others with the justification of biological and social inferiority.
Source: JesuitsWestCore.org

Normative Whiteness - Professor Gina Lewis (Bowie State University) describes normative whiteness as the result of people who don’t consciously subscribe to white supremist ideologies, but exhibit racist behaviors that are so normalized in their lives, that they are not aware of the racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory and oppressive origins of those behaviors and actions.

Intersectionality

Each person embodies multiple identities (ethnic, racial, and gender, for example).  These identities and lived experiences interact and overlap, thus complicating complex systems of oppression as well as privilege (classism, racism, heterosexism, etc).  

An example is though Black American, economically middle-class women and Nigerian-American, first generation women may have similar racialized experiences in the U.S.A., they may experience gender inequities differently due to xenophobia, nationalism, and colorism.  Another way to understand intersectionality is Black American women experience gender inequities differently than white American women due to racism; ableism is experienced differently between Black men and white men due to racism; in our current political climate, Chinese-Americans experience health discrimanation differently than white Americans due to xenophobia; an economically disadvantaged, southern white woman experiences life differently than an economically disadvantaged, northern, white woman due to regionalism, vernacular, and classism; and lastly, a young, LatinX, genderqueer indidividual may experience different social hostilities than an elder, cisgendered, Mexican-American woman due to ageism and ethnic discrimination.

Per Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, "Intersectionality is simply a prism to see the interactive effects of various forms of discrimination and disempowerment. It looks at the way that racism, many times, interacts with patriarchy, heterosexism, classism, xenophobia — seeing that the overlapping vulnerabilities created by these systems actually create specific kinds of challenges.”

Black Liberation

Black Liberation is the effort to fight the forces of White Supremacy.  It is primarily a philosophy of social, political and economic freedom for Black people.  It is designed to serve the needs of Black people which are not being otherwise served.  Within that philosophy is the desire for self rule, education, economic viability, food, clothing, decent housing, fighting police brutality, equal justice under the law, and other forms of racism that impede the Black community.
Source:  Taken from several sources and distilled.

Anti-colonialism

As a historical event, anticolonialism means the struggle against imperial rule in colonized countries, mostly during the first half of the twentieth century. As a philosophical movement and critical analytic, anticolonialism is the under-acknowledged predecessor to postcolonial theory. Consequently, the history of anticolonialism as a theoretical and political practice illuminates an historical and analytical trajectory between the colonized world, the Third World, and the contemporary Global South. (not sure I like this definition given what we are talking about)
Source: https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/key-concepts/anticolonialism

Anti-racism

Anti-racism is a form of action against racism and the systemic racism and the oppression of marginalized groups. Being antiracist is based on the conscious efforts and actions to provide equitable opportunities for all people on an individual and systemic level. People can act against racism by acknowledging personal privileges, confronting acts of racial discrimination, and working to change personal racial biases.
Source: "Being Antiracist". National Museum of African American History and Culture. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-08-11.

Anti-Black

The Council for Democratizing Education defines anti-Blackness as being a two-part formation that both voids Blackness of value, while systematically marginalizing Black people and their issues. The first form of anti-Blackness is overt racism. Beneath this anti-Black racism is the covert structural and systemic racism which categorically predetermines the socioeconomic status of Blacks in this country. The structure is held in place by anti-Black policies, institutions, and ideologies. The second form of anti-Blackness is the unethical disregard for anti-Black institutions and policies. This disregard is the product of class, race, and/or gender privilege certain individuals experience
Source: https://portlandmeansprogress.com/key-terms

Anti-oppression

Anti-oppressive practice is an interdisciplinary approach primarily rooted within the practice of social work that focuses on ending socioeconomic oppression. It requires the practitioner to critically examine the power imbalance inherent in an organizational structure with regards to the larger sociocultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating an egalitarian environment free from oppression, racism, and other forms of discrimination in the larger society, by engaging at the legal and political level. In general community practice it is about responding to oppression by dominant groups and individuals. In social services it regulates any possible oppressive practices and helps in delivering welfare services in an inclusive manner.
Source:  Strier, Roni (July 2007). "Anti-oppressive research in social work: a preliminary definition". The British Journal of Social Work. 37 (5): 857–871. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcl062.

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