GENDER OPPRESSION WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY: “I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, ’Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?’ This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course, I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
KEYWORDS: 1) latent oppression, 2) belligerent oppression, 3) manifest oppression, and 4) benevolent oppression.
A) education, B) the police state, C) penal system and 4) child welfare
SUBJECTS/TERMS
*Social stratification
*Race
*Social classes
*Racism
*Sociological research
*Class society
*Classism
*Polarization (Social sciences)
*Social segmentation
*Racialization
*Ascribed status
*Race awareness
*Racial differences
Human skin color
Race relations in Latin America
Mexico -- Social conditions
*ASCRIBED status
*SOCIAL policy
*COMPARATIVE government
*DEMOCRACY
*IDENTITY politics