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    identity wheel is unique to me. It also illustrates how oppression and privilege relate to my identity wheel. I am a white heterosexual Christian male. This statement already can demonstrate privilege and oppression. Since I am a Christian I can be oppressed by not Christian people. Some believe that being white gives me privilege over others. Personally I think that it really shouldn’t matter what your skin color, religion or economic class is. However, sadly because we live in a non perfect…

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    the role privilege pays in maintaining systems of domination” (Bailey, 104). With privilege, the dominant social groups have the ability “to construct, define, and control the construction of categories” (Bailey, 106). Therefore subordinate, or oppressed groups, do not exist independently because they are socially constructed by the dominants. Privilege is granted and refers to unearned advantages that individuals have without them even knowing. Other groups of people have to do more work in…

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    exists in one category at a time for example there is a oppressor and the one being oppressed. When discussing oppression the oppressor commonly rejects that the ones being oppressed are the only ones being harmed by claiming they are oppressed as well. This is illustrated in the quote by Frye in The Politics of Reality (1986) “The statement that women are oppressed is frequently met with the claim that men are oppressed too.” Quotes like these causes a lot of upset because these oppressors…

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    Concept reduces creativity and individuality. It slowly takes away a persons’ humanity. Eventually the oppressed adapt to the situation and instead of trying to repair and change it they submit because they lack the creativity and individuality to make a positive change. To stop the influence of a Banking Concept the teacher or revolutionary needs to actively engage the students or oppressed and start to give them their creativity…

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    “What kind of privilege?” you might be wondering. Well, in feminist theory, privileges are a set of unearned benefits of specific social or economic groups, that are empowered by society at the expense of oppressed groups, meaning that privileged groups have institutional power over the oppressed group. For example in a white supremacist society, people of colour don’t have institutional power (at least, not based on their race).…

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    James Cone

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    However, it is impossible to say anything about God without seeing God as, being involved in the contemporary liberation of all oppressed people. Therefore, the God in black theology remains the God of and for the oppressed, the God who comes into view in their liberation. Any other approach is a denial of biblical revelation. Nevertheless, Cone mentions that “When black theology speaks of the importance of tradition, it…

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    Pedagogy Of The Oppression

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    Pedagogy of the Oppressed, chapters three and four, discuss the depth of the oppressed and the oppressors, the importance of dialogue, and how this quality is portrayed in revolutionary leaders. Freire discusses the contrasting theories between the dominant elites and the revolutionary leaders to help explain that anti-dialogical dominant elites conquer the minds and freedom of the oppressed in different ways. Contrastingly, the revolutionary leaders prioritize the people, and focus on…

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    Oppression In Foster Care

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    that would be considered oppressed in the adoption process would be the children being adopted. There are five conditions that determine if a group is oppressed or not and having just one of those conditions could determine a group as an oppressed group. The five conditions are exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence (Bruskas, 2008). Children in the foster care system meet all five of these conditions determining them an oppressed group. One of the five…

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    importance of conversion experiences,transforming encounters with God, in black religion. These encounters signify death to the old life as oppressed and liberation to a new form of existence. He then describes the significance…

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    housewives did not consider: economic survival; ethnic, racial, and class discrimination; and sexist discrimination on a select group of women. In bell hooks eyes, Jane is not oppressed, because she is not non-white and/or poor. Not many women had the leisure time or money to be a housewife during this time so her being a part of an oppressed group is not believable. hooks says “… women do not join organized resistance against sexism precisely because sexism has not an absolute lack of choices.…

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