Deficit Thinking:

is a way of thinking used to maintain hegemonic systems and hold students from historically oppressed populations responsible for the challenges and inequalities that they face, in doing so, this perspective fails to place accountability with oppressive structures, policies, and practices within educational settings.

Read more: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/idx/c/currents/17387731.0001.110/--what-is-deficit-thinking-an-analysis-of-conceptualizations?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Watch more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZl3q0wr-JQ (Prof Kris D. Gutiérrez)

Cultural Wealth :

an array of knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences that are learned and shared by a group of people ranging from a family to a community or nation

Watch more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cxaX92WGY & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4XyAICOHWQ

Read more: Yosso*, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race ethnicity and education, 8(1), 69-91.

AMAZING list of resources from Racial Equity Tools, via Diversity Abroad (thanks David Wick!)

https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/RET_Glossary_Updated_October_2019_.pdf

White tears:

“White Tears” in this context is not a reference to all White people. “White Tears” is phrase to describe what happens when certain types of White people either complain about a nonexistent racial injustice or are upset by a non-White person’s success at the expense of a White person. It encompasses (and makes fun of) the performative struggle to acknowledge the existence of White privilege, and the reality that it ain't always gonna go unchecked."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white tears&page=4

Dimensions of Diversity: