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Colorism - answer a process that privileges light over dark-skinned
people of color in areas such as income, education, housing, and the
marriage market.
Employment hardship - answer jobless, involuntary part time work, and
working poverty.
Inter-ethnic employment discrimination - answer discrimination
practiced by racial and ethnic minority groups against other minorities.
Access discrimination - answer when people are denied employment
opportunities, or "access" to jobs, based on their race, sex, age, or
other factors not related to productivity.
Consumer racial profiling - answer differential treatment of consumers
in the marketplace based on race/ethnicity that constitutes denial of or
degradation in the products and/or services that are offered to the
consumer.
,Discouraged workers - answer people not currently looking for work
because they believe there are no jobs available for them, for various
reasons, including discrimination.
Glass ceiling - answer invisible barriers that confine minorities and
women to certain types of positions within organizations.
Glass walls - answer invisible barriers that confine minorities and
women to certain types of positions within organizations.
Racial microaggressions - answer brief and commonplace daily verbal,
behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or
unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial
slights and insults.
Racial profiling - answer using someone's demographic characteristics
to single them out for scrutiny or differential treatment.
Racial socialization - answer behaviors, communications, and
interactions concerning their cultural heritage and the appropriate
responses to racial hostility and discrimination that black parents model
and explain to black children.
, Racialized sexual harassment - answer the combination of racial and
sexual harassment, which includes both sexual and racial derogatory
behaviors, comments, and demands, directed at a person because of
their race and sex.
Statistical discrimination - answer using observable characteristics (ex.
Race, sex, age) as proxies for information about the productivity of
workers.
Treatment discrimination - answer when people are employed but are
treated differently once employed, receiving fewer job related rewards,
resources, or opportunities than they should receive based on job
related criteria.
Underemployment - answer the employment of workers at less than
their full potential, including those working part time, temporary, or
intermittent jobs but desiring regular full time work; those working for
lower wages than their skills would indicate or in positions requiring
considerably lower skills than they possess; and those involuntarily
working outside of their fields.
Allies - answer dominant group members and others not being uniquely
oppressed in a particular circumstance who work to end oppression
through their support of and advocacy for those who are oppressed.