Title: What Does BIPOC Stand For? Why It’s Important You Know What That Phrase Means
Headings: What Does BIPOC Stand For? Why It’s Important You Know What That Phrase Means
What Does BIPOC Stand For? Why It’s Important You Know What That Phrase Means
What does BIPOC stand for?
How is "BIPOC" different from "POC"?
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Content: And a term that comes up a lot in these discussions is the abbreviation, "BIPOC." © MissTuni/Getty Images
Because education is crucial in understanding and joining the fight for racial equality, it's important to know what this expression means and where it comes from. Educating yourself is one of the important ways to support Black Lives Matter and become anti-racist. What does BIPOC stand for? BIPOC stands for "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color." It seeks to highlight the Black and Indigenous communities and, as the BIPOC Project explains, the "unique relationship to whiteness that Indigenous and Black (African Americans) people have, which shapes the experiences of and relationship to white supremacy for all people of color within a United States context." It is a noun and includes the word "people," so, when using the term, you would say "BIPOC," not "BIPOC people," which is redundant and incorrect. And while it's certainly becoming better known than ever now, the New York Times was able to find uses of it in social media as far back as 2013. How is "BIPOC" different from "POC"? "POC," or "people of color," is a much, much older term, one that appeared in dictionaries as early as 1796.