20-point plan—plan drafted by a coalition of Native American organizations to address treaty rights and sought to ensure political, economic, and health improvements among natives.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—organization founded to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties granted by the Constitution.
American Indian Movement (AIM)—founded in 1968 to protest the U.S. government’s treatment of Native Americans.
ALANA—acronym for African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC)—organization that led strikes against farm growers in the 1960s.
BiPOC—acronym meaning Black, Indigenous, People of Color.
Bloody Sunday—march on March 7, 1965, from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to advocate for voting rights for African Americans.
Bracero—a Mexican laborer brought to the United States temporarily for work.
Brown-on-Brown stigma/taboo—a term that describes research that examines underrepresented groups conducted by members of said groups.
Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka—a pivotal Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.
Civil Rights Act of 1964—U.S. governmental act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion sex, or national origin, in employment, public accommodations and federally funded programs.
Civil Rights Act of 1968—also known as the U.S. Fair Housing Act of 1968, prohibits discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Civil Rights Movement—a series of campaigns, organized by various organizations in the United States to protest the inequitable treatment of Black citizens.
Cultural taxation—the expectations that UREP faculty are obligated to participate in departmental and institutional affairs concerning race and diversity.
El Malcriado—newspaper published by the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA).
Environmental scanning—ongoing tracking of trends in an organization’s internal and external environment.
Fish-ins—the American Indian Movement’s (AIM) and other Native American groups protesting of state-ordered restrictions on fishing in off-reservation areas.
Freedom rides—demonstration campaign during the Civil Rights Movement in which SNCC volunteers traveled by bus from Washington, DC to southern cities to test the federal law banning segregation in interstate bus terminal facilities.
Invisible work—service completed by faculty members that is not considered for promotion and tenure. Examples include writing recommendation letters, unofficial mentoring of students, and committee memberships.
La Causa—the movement to organize farm workers and protest against subpar working conditions, also known as the Farm Workers Movement.
Leaky pipeline—the interruption in the journey of UREP faculty from earning a PhD to promotion to full professor.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—special event held on August 28, 1963, organized by several organizations as part of the Civil Rights Movement.
Microinvalidation—an outcome that occurs when UREP faculty members are discouraged from researching topics examining traditionally underrepresented groups because it was not seen as rigorous as other topics.
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)—organization created in 1955 made up of Montgomery, Alabama, community leaders, activists, and pastors who organized bus boycotts.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)—The oldest civil rights organization in the United States; it uses legal defense to fight unequal treatment of Black Americans.
National Farm Workers Association (NFWA)—a group founded by Dolores Huerta and Ceasar Chavez to protest treatment of mainly Latino farmworkers.
One-way communication—describes tactics that only provide the transmittal of a message from the sender to receiver.
People of Color—a collective phase used to describe racial and ethnic groups.
Red Power Movement—a social movement led by Native Americans to demand for their self-determination.
Silver Anvil Award—an honor given annually by the Public Relations Society of America to organizations that have successfully implemented strategic public relations programs.
Slactivist—a person who supports a social or political cause with online support, but without commitment or involvement.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)—a coalition of groups protesting the treatment of Black Americans in the south.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)—a group of mainly college-aged activists who were integral to the planning and execution of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Trail of Broken Treaties—a coalition of eight Native American organizations who caravanned across country to Washington, DC to present its grievances to the White House administration.
Treaty of 1868—a treaty that gave Sioux Indians exclusive ownership of the
Black Hills of Dakota as part of the Sioux Reservation.
Two-Way Communication—describes tactics that provide a setting or mechanism for feedback from receiver to sender.
United Farm Workers (UFW)—a group established after the collaboration of the NFWA and AWOC to organize protest against poor treatment of farmworkers.
UREP—an acronym meaning Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Persons.
Voting Rights Act of 1965—the Congressional act that prohibited racial discrimination in voting practices.
Watergate Scandal—the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee offices, which led to the revelation of President Nixon’s administration abuse of power and ultimately Nixon’s resignation in 1974.