Report an incident of racism or racial harassment

The Anti-Racism Education and Response Team (ARERT) is responsible for:

• Taking the lead in coordinating campus-wide campaigns around diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism education.
• Overseeing the complaint resolution process and making recommendation on processes to be followed.
• Helping to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus community where all Students, Staff, Faculty, and the broader university community feels like they belong.

Following Policy 1010 — Anti-Racism Education and Response:

• Race is defined as a social construct used to classify people based on identified or perceived characteristics such as skin colour, culture, or cultural practices, and is informed by historical and geographic contexts. 
• Although the policy ultimately uses the term “race”, it also protects individuals from discrimination and harassment based on ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc. 

Following Policy 1010 — Anti-Racism Education and Response:

• A systemic form of oppression based on the social construct of race.
• Individual racism — Racial discrimination that stems from conscious or unconscious individual beliefs, attitudes, and actions that perpetuate the ideology that one racial or ethnic group is inherently superior. Individual racism is learned from and influenced by systemic racism and is rooted in the unequal distribution of power. 
• Institutional racism — Policies, practices, and dynamics embedded in established institutions (government, religion, education, organizations, etc.) that result in disadvantage or advancement of specific groups of people. These systemic practices normalize racism and may not be obvious.
• Structural racism/systemic racism — Structural or systemic racism points to the bigger picture of history, society, culture, institutions, and the economy. Racialized people have been historically left out of the development of society and its systems, resulting in deeply entrenched disadvantages, barriers, and biases. Systemic racism is at the root of large-scale discrepancies between white and racialized people in many areas including income and wealth, health outcomes, homelessness, unemployment, and involvement with the justice system. (CCDI).

Please note, this is NOT an exhaustive list.

• Physical violence or harm against an induvial because of their race, ethnicity, nationality, and/ or religion
• Psychological violence or harm against an induvial because of their race, ethnicity, nationality, and/ or religion
• Microaggressions
• Using racial slurs (this includes verbally, written, on social media, etc.)
• Offensive language/ hate speech
• Racially offensive jokes 
• Cultural appropriation
• Posting racially offensive content on social media