than 90 percent smaller than the budgets of the largest organizations in that discipline. (17) Children of color, who make up the overwhelming percentage of the children living in poverty in the United States, and other students with lower socioeconomic status, have a lower probability of accessing arts education. (18) Access to arts education declined significantly more for Black and Brown students than it did for White children between 1982 and 2008. There was less than a 2 percent decrease for White children, while there was a 49 percent decrease for Black children and a 40 percent decrease for Latin children. (19) The arts are in everyone. Everyone should have access to the arts. (20) Racial and ethnic inequality is a result of systematic and internalized racism and racist public and private policies and practices. Dismantling structural racism through the arts and humanities is critical to the health of our Nation. 3. Definitions (1) Antiracism The term antiracism means a collection of antiracist policies and practices that lead to racial equity, are substantiated by antiracist ideas, and include a policy or practice that recognizes pervasive racism in society, and actively combats racial prejudice and discrimination in order to promote racial justice and equity. (2) Antiracist The term antiracist means any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups, including any policy or practice that produces active resistance to and dismantling of the system of racism. (3) Systemic racism The term systemic racism means systems of power, unfair policies, discriminatory practices, and normalized dynamics (historical, cultural, internalized, interpersonal, institutional) that routinely produce inequitable outcomes for oppressed people and advantages for privileged people, with the effect of creating and sustaining inequities. (4) Equity The term equity means fair and impartial outcomes, opportunities, and access for an individual (or entity) engaging with an organization or systems (political