How to be an antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

내가 요즘 미국에서 이민자로 살면서 고민하는 과정을 거의 비슷하게 자신의 인종인식이 어떻게 성장해왔는지 그렸다. 자신의 인생에 결정적인 시점들과 맞춰 요점들을 정리해서인지  좀 더 포인트들이 설득력있게 들렸던 것같기도 하다. 우리는 과연 다같이 암과 싸워낼 수 있을까? 암은 모든 암세포를 없에야 살 수 있다. 인종차펼도 마찬가지다. 모두가 없애야하고 모든 차원에서 없어져야한다.

1. Definitions

1. Racist: One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.

2. Antiracist: One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea.

2. Dueling Consciousness

1. Assimilationist: One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavior enrichment programs to develop that racial group.

2. Segregationist: One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group.

3. Antiracist: One who is expressing the idea that racial groups are equals and none needs developing, and is supporting policy that reduces racial inequity.

3. Power

1. Race: A power construct of collected or merged difference that lives socially.

4. Biology

1. Biological racist: One who is expressing the idea that the races are meaningfully different in their biology and that these differences create a hierarchy of value.

2. Biological antiracist: One who is expressing the idea that the races are meaningfully the same in their biology and there are no genetic racial differences.

5. Ethnicity

1. Ethnic Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between racialized ethnic groups and are substantiated by racist ideas about racialized ethnic groups.

2. Ethnic Antifacism: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between racialized ethnic groups and are substantiated by antiracist ideas about racialized ethnic groups.

6. Body

1. Bodily Racist: One who is perceiting certain racialized bodies as more animal-like and violent than others.

2. Bodily Antiracist: One who is humanizing, deracializing and individualizaing nonviolent and viloent behavior.

7. Culture

1. Cultural racist: One who is creating a cultural standard and imposing a cultural hierarchy among racial groups.

2. Cultural Antiracist: One who is rejecting cultural standards and equalizing cultural differences among racial groups.

8. Behavior

1. Behavioral Racist: One who is making individuals repsponsible for the perceieved behavior of racial groups and making racial groups responsible for the behavior of individuals.

2. Behavior Antiracist: One who is making racial group behavior fictional and individual behavior real.

9. Color

1. Colorism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequities between light people and dark people, supported by racist ideas about light and dark people.

2. Color Antiracism: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between light people and dark people, supported by antiracist ideas about light and dark people.

10. While

1. Anti-whie racist: One who is classifying people of European descent as biologically, culturally, or behaviorally inferior or conflating the entire race of while people with racist power.

11. Black

1. Powerless defense: The illusory, concealing, disempowering, and racist idea that black people can’t be racist because black people don’t have power.

12. Class

1. Class racist: One who is racializing the classes, supporting policies of racial capitalism against thoes race-classes, and justifying them by racist idas about thoes race-classes.

2. Antiracist anticapitalist: One who is opposing racial capitalism.

13. Space

1. Space Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to resource inequity between racialized spaces or the elimination of certain racialized spaces, which are substantiated by racist ideas about racialized spaces.

2. Space antiracism: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to racial equity between integrated and protected racialized spaces, which are substantiated by antiracist ideas about racialized spaces.

14. Gender

1. Center Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between race-genders and are substantiated by racist ideas about race-genders.

2. Gender Antiracism: A poerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between race-genders and are substantiated by anti-racist ideas about race-genders.

15. Sexuality

1. Queer Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between race-sexualities and are substantiated by racist ideas about race-sexualities.

2. Queer antiracism: A poerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between race-sexualities and substantiated by antiracist ideas about race-sexualities.

16. Failure

1. Activist: One who has a record of power or polity change.

17. Success

18. Survival