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Understanding Identity and Privilege Quiz

Test your knowledge about key concepts related to identity, privilege, and societal structures! This quiz explores important definitions and relationships that shape our understanding of race, gender, equity, and more. Engage with thought-provoking questions designed to deepen your awareness and appreciation of diversity and inclusion.

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A grouping based on shared physical traits, ancestry, genetics, or social relations, and the relations between those groups. Examples: American Indian/Alaska Native; Arab/Middle Eastern or Arab/Middle Eastern American; Asian or Asian American - Black or African American; Native Hawaiian/Pacific Island; and White.

Race

Diversity

Privilege

Discrimination

The complex interrelationship between three dimensions: Body: our body, our experience of our own body, how society genders bodies, and how others interact with us based on our body; Identity: our deeply held, internal sense of self as masculine, feminine, a blend of both, or neither; Expression: how we present our gender to the world.

Sexual Orientation

Gender Expression

Privilege

Gender Identity

How we present our gender in the world. This can include one’s behavior, mannerisms, interests, and appearance. Gender expression is often associated with categories of masculinity and femininity that are steeped in cultural norms based on stereotypes about gender.

Race

Gender Expression

Sexual Orientation

Gender Identity

An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people.

Microaggressions

Gender Expression

Sexual Orientation

Gender Identity

A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people that is not extended to another group of people. We are privileged and underprivileged in others

Microaggressions

Privilege

Discrimination

Gender Identity

A positive or negative attitude toward a person or group, formed without just grounds or sufficient knowledge and not likely to be changed despite new evidence or contrary argument.

Microaggressions

Privilege

Discrimination

Prejudice

Unequal treatment of people based on their membership in a group. To treat a person, not on the basis of their intrinsic individual qualities, but on the basis of a prejudgment about a group. Examples: sexism, ableism, racism, etc.

Microaggressions

Privilege

Discrimination

Prejudice

�Small” daily insults and indignities perpetrated against marginalized or oppressed group that have a dangerous and harmful cumulative impact and feed supremacy.

Microaggressions

Privilege

Discrimination

Prejudice

It is a system of hierarchy and inequity, characterized by white supremacy. White supremacy is upholding whiteness/Eurocentricity as the norm or the standard.

Racism

Privilege

Discrimination

Prejudice

Established laws, policies and practices within an institution, supported intentionally or unintentionally by institutional power and authority, which systematically reflect, produce and maintain racial inequalities in U.S. Society that advantage people based on race, gender, gender expression, ability, religion, sexual orientation, sex, etc.

Anti-Racism

Privilege

Discrimination

Institutional Racism

The term simply describes the presence of individuals from various backgrounds and/or with various identities. The term is often used to include aspects of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, ability, religion, and much more.

Diversity

Privilege

Discrimination

Institutional Racism

Giving everyone what they need to be successful. This includes elimination of policies, practices, attitudes and cultural messages that reinforce or fail to eliminate differential outcomes by group identity/background (economic, educational, health, criminal justice, etc.).

Diversity

Equity

Discrimination

Inclusion

Authentically brings the perspectives and contributions of all people to the table, equitably distributes power, and incorporates needs, assets and perspectives into the design and implementation of processes, policies, activities, and decision-making.

Diversity

Equity

Discrimination

Inclusion

A form of action against racism and systematic oppression of marginalized populations. It is a conscious effort and action to provide equitable opportunities on individual, institutional, and systematic levels.

Diversity

Anti-Racism

Discrimination

Inclusion

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