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• Xenophobia - Fear and/or loathing of people who have social group identities or memberships that are different from your own; the "other" or"those people." Example: Since Sept. 11, 2001 and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, American people and policy have become explicitly xenophobic. This xenophobia is directed at people who identify as or"appear"to be Muslim. This specific xenophobia is also known as Islamophobia. SPECTRUM OF VIOLENCE Spectrum of Violence- See figure below. A model or understanding of violence built upon the assumptions that not all violence is: physical, visible, and/or valued equally. 2)An acknowledgement that there are many types of violence in the world and not all of these types of violence are acknowledged or responded to equally. 3) Beginning with Community Violence, the spectrum, goes clockwise, ordering types of violence from the most"visible" to the least"visible" (noticed in the mainstream). However, each point on the spectrum has "visible" and invisible aspects. Example: violence against women and girls of color (sex trafficking, murder, sexual assault domestic violence or police brutality receives less attention (invisible) than police violence against men and boys of color (visible). • Violence- 1)A primary tool of oppression.2) A coercive spectrum of tools used to acquire, build and/or maintain power. 3)A continuum COMMUNITY of economic, political, cultural, religious, VIOLENCE psychological, and physical resources, behaviors and practices used as vehicles of hL violence. VIOLENCE AGAINST ■ VIOLENCEWOMEN OF I • Community Violence - A combination of COLOR rp!� - violence directed at communities, such as OF police violence,war, and colonialism, and VIOLENCE violence within communities,such as sexual and domestic violence. • Political Violence—1)A tool in the spectrum F ■NO POLITICAL of violence used to exploit the most VIOLE VIOLENCE vulnerable people and communities in our society.2)The targeted coercive or abusive use of political systems, policies and/or practices in the service of acquiring, maintaining, and/or building power(institutional or structural)for a majoritized community. • Economic Violence — 1)A tool in the spectrum of violence used to exploit the most vulnerable people and communities in our society.2)The targeted coercive or abusive use of economic systems, policies and/or practices in the service of acquiring, maintaining, and/or building power(institutional or structural)for a majoritized community. 76 2019 COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT