Oppression
____ = Power + Prejudice
What is the Oppression Formula?
A system designed to promote affordable rents for tenants and often uses government (on a local or national scale) owned properties. This increases renter power by engaging the community on housing decision making.
What is Social Housing?
This author wrote about the Ethics of Love, teaching us to shift from a life of dominance and competition to a life focused on caring about those around us.
Who is Bell Hooks?
A system where groups of humans are categorized and ranked on race (skin color, eye shape, hair texture/appearance, etc).
What is racialization?
This ideology emphasizes free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduced government intervention.
What is neoliberalism?
This is a short, sometimes unintentional but biased statement made to a marginalized group or person. It may come across as hostile or insulting towards individuals.
What is a microagression?
The discrimination against a group based on income levels and access to luxuries and resources, usually by offering better opportunities to those in the upper class.
What is Classism?
The feminist author who developed the Birdcage concept; is an analogy to elaborate on societal oppression.
Who is Marilyn Frye?
This is the author of Radicalized and Colonized Bodies.
Who is Margo DeMello?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
A movie we watched in class involved a round table dinner discussion that broke down racism that may be internalized and not self-aware.
What is "Deconstructing Karen"?
The economic system is where owners privately control their businesses, properties, and manage the distribution and sales of those things. This system benefits the wealthy and strains the poor.
What is capitalism?
Singers of "People Have the Power!", a song that inspires change through unity and the power in numbers.
Who are Patti Smith & Co.?
Known as the "One Drop Rule," this concept is how children of mixed-race parents are classified.
What is hypodescent?
Neoliberalism has led to the creation of worker organizations that advocate for employees' rights and interests.
What are alt-labor groups?
This term was coined for not seeing color when deflecting an accusation of racism.
What is colorblindness?
This group makes up 12% of America's population, but only ~1% of its wealth through negative assets.
What are the poor and working-poor classes?
Author of "Colorism and Classism: Keeping the Poor, Poor," the 2020 article that discussed her discomfort with her skin color as she navigated the different values that separate cultures and countries place on the color of skin.
Who is Maya Richardson?
A scientific approach to racism where scientists compared skulls.
What is craniometry?
Neoliberalism has transformed individuals from citizens to these
What are consumers?
Having a right or an advantage based on either what you have or what you were born into.
An individual's position in the hierarchy of wealth or class.
The two organizers of Race2Dinner, a movement that was featured in one of our class films.
Who are Saira Rao and Regina Jackson?
Having judgment towards a character based on one or more physical features.
What is Physiognomy?
The documentary argues that neoliberalism has contributed to this global environmental crisis by prioritizing economic growth over ecological sustainability
What is climate change?