So You Want to Talk About Race Terms

Cultural appropriation is the borrowing of traditions or practices—such as food, dress, music, or language—from another culture. Oluo believes that cultural appropriation is harmful when there’s a power imbalance between the borrowing culture and the… read analysis of Cultural Appropriation

Intersectionality is a phrase coined by race theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw in the 1980s to capture the fact that people in U.S. society are oppressed for multiple, often overlapping reasons. People can be oppressed because of… read analysis of Intersectionality

Oluo defines microaggressions as “small daily insults and indignities perpetrated against people of color.” Microaggressions are often committed unintentionally, but Oluo argues that they are a form of oppression because they’re psychologically harmful to oppressed… read analysis of Microaggression

The school-to-prison pipeline is the process by which black and brown youths are disciplined at a disproportionate rate in the education system, which correlates with higher levels of criminalization and incarceration among these demographics later… read analysis of School-to-Prison Pipeline