Racism occurs between individuals, on an interpersonal level, and is embedded in organizations and institutions through their policies, procedures and practices. In general, it may seem easier to recognize individual or interpersonal acts of racism: a slur made, a person ignored in a social or work setting, an act of violence. However, "individual" racism is not created in a vacuum but instead emerges from a society's foundational beliefs and "ways" of seeing/doing things, and is manifested in organizations, institutions, and systems (including education). Below are some useful definitions:

To combat racism today, it is necessary to understand the history of the ideology of "race" in order to challenge whiteness as the foundation of racial categories and racism.

Whiteness is multidimensional, complex, systemic and systematic:

It is socially and politically constructed, and therefore a learned behavior.It does not just refer to skin colour but its ideology based on beliefs, values behaviors, habits and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin colour (Frye, 1983; Kivel, 1996).It represents a position of power where the power holder defines the categories, which means that the power holder decides who is white and who is not (Frye, 1983).It is relational. "White" only exists in relation/opposition to other categories/locations in the racial hierarchy produced by whiteness. In defining "others," whiteness defines itself.Students will create a platform in which to dismantle systemic racism/privilege. This platform will consist of ways to begin the dismantlement of systemic racism in all institutions. It is used in corporations, education system, policing system, banking system etc. as to identify and be called on racism in all systems to create change and equality among all people.