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• Minoritized Population— 1)A community of people whose access to institutional and structural power has been severely limited regardless of the size of the population. As a result, the community is constantly being disenfranchised and disempowered by the majoritized population. 2)Also referred to as a subordinated population. • Cultural Default- 1) The status quo; a category or reality specific to one group of people that is used as a rule or standard for all people and groups. 2)Taking the preferences, practices, and policies of a ruling elite and universalizing them so that they feel "natural" or function as social norms. 3) Often referred to in academic circles as hegemony. Examples: Racial justice movements address the cultural default of Whiteness:beauty standards; definitions of culture, civility and humanity; what counts as knowledge; etc. • Eurocentrism - 1)The process and product of the cultural default of Whiteness. 2) The utilization of European cultural standards as universal standards that all should be judged by. 3)To orient to European people and cultures as the benchmark of: humanity, culture, truth, virtue, style, beauty, civility, knowledge, and ethics; a deification of European people and their cultures. • White Privilege- 1)The unearned privileges associated with identifying as or appearing White in a racist society. 2) Living and existing as a White (appearing) person in a world that operates on the cultural default of Whiteness. 3)A tool that a White ally can use to challenge racist oppression in the spaces and places they have access to. Privilege- 1) The unearned social, political, economic, and psychological benefits of membership in a group that has institutional and structural power. 2) Living and existing in a world where standards and rules are premised upon your needs wants and desires. 3. To identify with or be identified as a member of a dominant social group (as opposed to a minoritized group). • Oppression — 1)A system for gaining, abusing and maintaining structural and institutional power for the benefit of a limited dominant class. 2) The inequitable distribution of structural and institutional power. 3) A system where a select few horde power, wealth and resources at the detriment of the many. 4) The lack of access, opportunity, safety, security and resources that minoritized populations experience; a direct result of a vacuum created by privilege. 5)A state of being that is the opposite of social justice. • Community Organizing— 1)The art and science of social movements. 2)The theories, practices and skills that people use to create movements for social transformation. 3) A communal process of using, building and demonstrating power in order to influence decision makers to get things the community needs or wants. 4) The ultimate response on the continuum of responses to social injustice. It is a communal process of building power (often by developing a broad coalition of 74 2019 COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT