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Barack Obama as President of the United States marks for many the moment America <br /> became a post-racial society. <br /> • Racial Justice—1)A social justice orientation with a focus on dismantling the root causes <br /> of racism (institutional and structural policies and practices) rather than merely the <br /> symptoms of racism (racial bias, racial prejudice, racial stereotypes). 2) Requires a focus <br /> on and commitment to the communities most directly negatively impacted by racism. <br /> • Racial Binary-The Western/U.S.tendency to only think and talk about race and racism <br /> in terms of Black and White people;thus making invisible the racialization of other people <br /> of color including bi/multiracial and bi/multiethnic people. <br /> • Multiracial/Multiethnic—1)Of or pertaining to two or more racial/ethnic identities. 2)An <br /> identity category growing in usage and popularity by those who understand their racial/ <br /> ethnic identity and heritage to be rooted in more than one racial/ethnic tradition. 3. Made <br /> up of, involving or acting in the interest of more than one racial/ethnic group. <br /> Race — 1)A social rather than biological construction. 2)A theoretical invention of a <br /> European scientist used to separate and rank human beings into three distinct biological <br /> categories: Caucasoid (European), Negroid (African) and Mongoloid (Asian). According to this <br /> "science" these three species of humans evolved completely separate from one another with <br /> no common ancestors. The science of race proclaimed that White/ Europeans (Caucasoid) are <br /> the most evolved of the three human species and Black/Africans are the least evolved. 3) The <br /> term race as applied to humans was invented as equivalent to the term species used to <br /> reference (non-human) animals and plants. 4) An umbrella term used to minimize ethnic <br /> variety and emphasize broader group identity markers most often rooted in appearance, skin <br /> tone, and ancestral homelands or origins. <br /> Example: The racialized term Asian includes numerous ethnic groups and nationalities <br /> such as Hmong, Korean, Pilipino, Taiwanese, Laotian, Vietnamese, Chinese and <br /> Japanese. Despite the fact that some of these nations and people were colonizers and <br /> other were colonized, the concept of"race"draws our focus to similarities of these <br /> diverse groups of people rather than the many ethnic%ultural differences among the <br /> group. <br /> 2019 COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT 83 <br />