The history of the Southern Baptist Convention informs the way that they plan to address Critical Race Theory in their church going forward.
Anti-Black Racism
In common usage,
Refers to the particular ways in which structural racism and White supremacy impact Black people.
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refers to the particular ways in which
An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality.
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—particularly structural racism and
Both a system of beliefs that holds that White people are intrinsically superior and a system of institutional arrangements that favors White people as a group.
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in the U.S. context—impacts Black people. More specifically, anti-Blackness is used to reintroduce elements of
The use of violence, intimidation, surveillance, and discrimination, particularly by the state and/or its civilian allies, to control populations or particular sections of a population.
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faced by Black people in the United States that can be obscured in framings such as “people of color.” Anti-Blackness is also used to emphasize the foundational character of anti-Black racism in the U.S., and to indicate that it is a feature not just of the historically White majority, but among people of color and in the Black community, often manifesting as colorism.
