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INTERSECTIONALITY
in-ter-sec-tion-al-i-ty
noun
RACIALIZATION
Ra-cial-iza-tion
noun
"The process through which, in each sociohistorical period, individuals and groups acquire racial identities and meanings. Racialization also involves placement of individuals and groups into pre-existing race-based social hierarchies" (Ipsa-Landa & Conwell, 2).
XENOPHOBIA
Xe-no-pho-bi-a
noun
"fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign"
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EMPOWERMENT
Em-pow-er-ment
noun
1. the act or action of empowering someone or something : the granting of the power, right, or authority to perform various acts or duties
2. the state of being empowered to do something : the power, right, or authority to do something
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CODE-SWITCHING
noun
"In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation"
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