Hi Cayle, Right at the beginning of your post I like how you state that those who “have” take advantage of those who “have not”, this is a great example of oppression and privilege. I enjoy this statement because it helps me realize that oppression and privilege are not only an inequality that needs to be balanced out, but is also a relationship where one group takes advantage of the other. I strongly agree with you when you say that “we as a society have not acted because we believe we have
chapters, gives a complete view of the concept of privilege, and more importantly, barriers that keep the concept from being properly understood. Johnson credits Peggy McIntosh with the most accurate definition: “privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because of anything they’ve done or failed to do” (21). One of Johnson’s first arguments show that against privilege being due to difference. His main argument
gender, ethnic community or even the physical appearance of an individual. Discrimination may lead to the oppression of a particular group for instance in a school setup, there are cases where a particular
Alexndra Kollontai and “Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialoge” by Barbara and Beverly Smith brings forth a couple of common themes: the role upper class women play in women’s movements and differing views of men according to a woman’s privilege. The range of topics of the pieces themselves spark an analysis of intersectionality, as Barbara and Beverly Smith take the discussion much further with examinations of race and sexuality that Kollantai did not mention. One key belief that both
employee willing to help. That is called Privilege, or more specifically “Thin Privilege.” Many people around the world, and specifically in the United States, feel that Thin Privilege does not exist or that thin people have body issues too. While thin people may have difficulty with their self esteem, our society does not look at them with hatred, disgust or disappointment, purely based on their looks. Thin Privilege is a fairly unrecognized form of oppression rooted from years of societal pressure
reading Cohen’s essay and her argument on the importance of intersectionality and transformational politics. Intersectional analysis involves the simultaneous analysis of multiple intersecting forms of oppression and subordinations, an ideology every movement should consider when fighting against oppression. Intersectionality is often used in critical theories to describe ways in which oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined individually from each other, such oppressive institutions
professions. Privilege is the relative benefit that a group enjoys as a result of the discrimination or oppression of
This means most of them did not work hard to get the advantages. In most cases, privilege is past down from generation to generation and somewhere in pasting down the privilege people forget how privilege they really are in this world. Johnson suggests that in order to fight privilege power and oppression, the job does not only fall to the non-privilege and the oppressed. But the people with privilege and the oppressor must acknowledge what they are doing and fight along with underdogs. That
Sue tells the story of the Hmong people and how they are descendants of Chinese heritage and during the war they sided with the Americans. They suffered oppression and they could no longer live in their homes and were forced to move to America. However, when they arrived they found that their culture and values had changed. Women are now going to college while most of the men end up in prison due to gang
Methods of oppression included the African slave trade, indentured servitude, and forced cultural assimilation. These subordinate groups were forced in to assimilation, most notably Native Americans. Even though Black Hawk was a male, he was Native American and thus