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According to Iris Marion Young, there are five “faces” or types of oppression: violence, exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, and cultural imperialism. Exploitation is the act of using people’s labors to produce profit while not compensating them fairly. People who work in sweat shops are exploited.
8 sty 2021 · PDF | On Jan 8, 2021, Susanne Liedauer published Dimensions and Causes of Systemic Oppression | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
With an analysis of the Four “I’s” of Oppression, oppressed communities have the tools and agency necessary to dismantle these oppressive systems. Essential Questions: What is ideological oppression, how does it manifest itself, and how do we work to dismantle it?
Police violence against people of color – especially Black people – is one of the most persistent examples of systemic injustice in the US. According to data from late 2019 and early 2020, the Prison Policy Initiative found that Black people were almost 12 times more likely than white people to report experiencing police misconduct, like ...
In the United States, systems of oppression (like systemic racism) are woven into the very foundation of American culture, society, and laws. Other examples of systems of oppression are sexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, ageism, and anti-Semitism.
In this chapter I explicate each of these forms of oppression. Each may entail or cause distributive injustices, but all involve issues of justice beyond distribution. In accordance with ordinary political usage, I suggest that oppression is a condition of groups.
Systemic oppression manifests on the individual, the interpersonal, the institutional, and the structural level, and we ofer an example of each. A teacher holds an unconscious mental model that her students of color are not “college material.”
