EXTRA CONTEXT

This page provides extra context that will help aid in the understanding of complex issues. This includes definitions, statistics and other relevant information. We aim to display accurate and complete information that helps conceptualize justice issues in the past, present, and future.

Important Terms:

Justice

The ethical, philosophical idea that people are to be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/justice

Race

a group sharing outward physical characteristics and some commonalities of culture and history.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/difference-between-race-and-ethnicity#:~:text=Today%2C%20race%20refers%20to%20a,%2C%20traditional%2C%20and%20familial%20bonds.

Ethnicity

markers acquired from the group with which one shares cultural, traditional, and familial bonds.

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Violence

the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652990/

Forced Asimilation

involuntary process of cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups

https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/

Reclamation

the process of claiming something back or of reasserting a right.

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Afrocentric

regarding African or black culture as preeminent.

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Eurocentric

focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent.

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