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• Violence against women of color - A combination of violence directed at women of <br /> col-or and their communities,such as police violence,war, and colonialism, and violence <br /> used within communities against women of color, such as sexual and domestic violence. <br /> • Hate Crimes — 1)A form of community violence that targets the most vulnerable <br /> populations. 2)Committed when a perpetrator intentionally selects and commits a crime <br /> toward someone based on actual or perceived membership in a particular group, usually <br /> defined by race, religion,ability, ethnic origin,gender identity or sexual orientation. Current <br /> federal laws make it a crime to commit bias-motivated acts against individuals or property. <br /> Hate crimes not only cause direct harm to the victim, but have an intimidating and isolating <br /> impact on the larger community than targeted originally. <br /> Racial ized V i o I e n ee - 1)A tool in the spectrum of violence used to exploit the <br /> most vulnerable people and communities in our society. 2)A form of racialized community <br /> violence. 3)Tool of oppression directed against communities of color, such as economic <br /> policies, cultural practices, political maneuvers, police brutality, war, criminal justice systems, <br /> hate crimes, genocide, and colonialism used in the service of acquiring, building, or <br /> maintaining institutional and structural power at the expense of people of color. <br /> • Microaggressions- 1)Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace <br /> daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or <br /> unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial <br /> slights and insults toward people of color. 2)The "normalized" (verbal and <br /> non-verbal) violent behaviors that daily challenge the full humanity and <br /> dignity of people who are or appear to be members of a minoritized <br /> population. Due to their frequency, microaggressions have a cumulative <br /> (negative) impact on the psychological, emotional, and/or physical well- <br /> being of the recipients of these assaults. <br /> fines that _ <br /> "Toll Cant bB "I don't meanpeunaN'c ��� � <br /> see me?' r <br /> at <br /> His pani€.You're gel ha ppened, �� <br /> ton white." color." <br /> "That is "Do you guys "You are so <br /> So really pray five beautiful far <br /> retarded." times a day?"' a trans girl." <br /> 2019 COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT 77 <br />