Summary Of Dehumanization

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In this chapter the author talks about of dehumanization throughout the section. Dehumanization, people's humanity has been gone while humanity includes characteristics that make us human such as freedom and understanding. …………………………………………… However, Freire recognizes that those who steal the humanity of others are dehumanized through “an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors” The oppressed and the oppressors need to find a way to live among themselves. Also, to restore the humanity, the oppressed must struggle to change their situation.
In this chapter the author summarized specific issues, for example:

1 -Problem of humanization.
2 -The relation between oppressors and oppressed.
3 -revolutionary

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