SUNDOWN TOWNS are all-white communities, neighbourhoods, or counties that exclude Black [folks] and other minorities through the use of discriminatory laws, harassment, and threats or use of violence.

Source: (https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sundown-towns/)

ANTI-RACISM is defined as the work of actively opposing racism by advocating for changes in political, economic, and social life. Anti-racism tends to be an individualized approach, and set up in opposition to individual racist behaviours and impacts.

Source: Race Forward, “Race Reporting Guide” (2015).

DECOLONIZATION may be defined as the active resistance against colonial powers, and a shifting of power towards political, economic, educational, cultural, psychic independence and power that originate from a colonized nation’s own indigenous culture. This process occurs politically and also applies to personal and societal psychic, cultural, political, agricultural, and educational deconstruction of colonial oppression.

Source:

1. The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), “Glossary.”
2. Eric Ritskes, “What Is Decolonization and Why Does It Matter?”

RACIAL EQUITY is the condition that would be achieved if one's racial identity no longer predicted, in a statistical sense, how one fares. When we use the term, we are thinking about racial equity as one part of racial justice, and thus we also include work to address root causes of inequities, not just their manifestation. This includes elimination of policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages that reinforce differential outcomes by race or that fail to eliminate them.

Source:
Center for Assessment and Policy Development.