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This tradition does not use ordinary words in the ordinary way, and that is not an accident. Every entry here is in two halves. The first is the definition in their own words, taken from their own theorists and cited. The second is the same claim in plain English, and it is marked as ours.

  1. TLI-DEC-07Codebook entryCapitalismNoun · Redefined ordinary wordThe development, organization, and expansion of capitalist society pursued essentially racial directions, so too did social ideology. As a material force, then, it could be expected that racialism would inevitably permeate the social structures emergent from capitalism. I have used the term “racial capitalism” to refer to this development and to the subsequent structure as a historical agency.
  2. TLI-DEC-08Codebook entryEquityNoun · Redefined ordinary wordRacial equity is when two or more racial groups are standing on a relatively equal footing.
  3. TLI-DEC-01Codebook entryHegemonyNoun · Gramscian vocabularyThe “spontaneous” consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group
  4. TLI-DEC-04Codebook entryRacismNoun · Redefined ordinary wordracism here is White racial and cultural prejudice and discrimination, supported intentionally or unintentionally by institutional power and authority, used to the advantage of Whites and the disadvantage of peoples of Color
  5. TLI-DEC-03Codebook entryRepressive toleranceNoun phrase · Frankfurt School vocabularyLiberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left
  6. TLI-DEC-05Codebook entryViolenceNoun · Redefined ordinary wordThis is a book about assaultive speech, about words that are used as weapons to ambush, terrorize, wound, humiliate, and degrade.
  7. TLI-DEC-02Codebook entryWar of positionNoun phrase · Gramscian strategyin politics the “war of position”, once won, is decisive definitively
  8. TLI-DEC-06Codebook entryWhitenessNoun · Redefined ordinary wordWhiteness as the embodiment of white privilege transcended mere belief or preference; it became usable property, the subject of the law’s regard and protection.

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