Janet Helms and Her Colleagues Developed the Terms ALANA and VREG

question 57

Multiple Choice

Janet Helms and her colleagues developed the terms ALANA and VREG to describe ethnic minority populations in order to

• A) avoid the term "minority," which they felt was disempowering.
• B) describe new racial categories in order to establish different priorities.
• C) emphasize the inequalities of our racial categories.
• D) distinguish between ethnic minorities and racial minorities.

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