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Vocabulary to practice using: internalized dominance; internalized oppression A female prime minister was strategizing with her all-male cabinet about how to address a string of recent sexual assaults on women throughout the city. Someone suggested a 9:00 p.m. curfew, which the cabinet thought was a good idea. The prime minister also nodded her head in […]

Understanding Privilege Through Ableism 1. a. Working with a partner with whom you share a dominant group identity, draw on experiences from your own life in order to generate examples of how your internalized dominance (as a member of the group identity you share) manifests. Begin by thinking about privileges that you take for granted

Patterns of Internalized Dominance and Internalized Oppression 115     Source: Adapted from Adair & Howell (2007), with permission Figure 5.4. The Panopticon Source: www.moyak.com/papers/Panopticon.jpg 116   http://www.moyak.com/papers/Panopticon.jpg   This model produced a type of self-policing, a self-imposed mechanism for control and supervision. In other words, the prisoner becomes fearful of the threat of the

Hegemony, Ideology, and Power Hegemony refers to the control of the ideology of a society. The dominant group maintains power by imposing their ideology on everyone. Recall that ideology refers to the stories, myths, explanations, definitions, and rationalizations that are used to justify inequality between the dominant and the minoritized groups. The key element of

Internalized Oppression Internalized oppression refers to internalizing and acting out (often unintentionally) the constant messages that you and your group are inferior to the dominant group and thus deserving of your lower position. Examples include: Believing that dominant group members are more qualified for and deserving of their positions Seeking the approval of and spending

Microaggressions: The everyday slights and insults that 112 minoritized people endure and dominant people don’t notice or concern themselves with. Internalized dominance manifests in our daily actions through what psychologist Derald Wing Sue (2010) termed microaggressions. By definition, microaggressions are everyday slights, insults, and insensitivities from dominant group members to minoritized members. These messages are

Internalized Dominance Internalized dominance refers to internalizing and acting out (often unintentionally) the constant messages circulating in the culture that you and your group are superior to the minoritized group and thus entitled to your higher position. Examples include: Rationalizing privilege as natural (“It’s just human nature—someone has to be on top.”) Rationalizing privilege as

.Oppression is cultural Oppression is embedded in all dimensions of culture. Referring to the iceberg diagram from Chapter 3, consider how the norms of what constitutes deep culture (the unspoken and unconscious rules) are gendered and manifest in government processes and policies. These norms privilege men. Women who do enter politics are most successful when

Oppression is historical. The under representation of women in government is not simply the result of the last federal election in a given country. Women’s exclusion from government in the United States and Canada well into the 21st century illustrates their long-term overall exclusion as citizens, guaranteeing that they would have no role in deciding

Dolores Huerta (b. 1930) Huerta is a pioneering labor and civil rights leader, and the cofounder (with Cesar Chávez) of the United Farmworkers of America. In 1955 she became involved with a grassroots organization (the Community Service Organization) that was fighting police brutality in the community and pushing for improved public services. It was there