Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Privilege, Oppression and the Matrix of
Domination
- PRIVILEGE
- Privilege exists "when one group has
something of value that is denied to others"
because of the groups or social categories
they belong to
- TWO TYPES OF
PRIVILEGE
- Unearned Advantages
- The restriction of unearned
entitlements to dominant
groups
- Gives them the "critical edge"
- Food, water, clothes and
opportunities
- Unearned entitlements: things all
people should have
- Conferred Dominance
- Gives permission to
control
- Whites represent 82 percent of Congress
- Gives power to people who did not earn it
- OPPRESSION
- A relationship in which the
dominant group benefits from
the systematic abuse,
exploitation and injustice
directed at a subordinate group
- Results from the societal relations between social
categories
- Systematic
- Privilege and oppression
are CONNECTED
- One form of privilege can defend or reinforce another
- Access to one form of privilege can affect access to others
- One form of privilege can serve as compensation for not having access to another
- Privilege and oppression cannot exist without
one another
- THE MATRIX OF DOMINATION
- The construction of difference is
NOT RANDOM
- Each category unique
- However, each category is
constructed through similar
processes
- INTERSECTIONALITY
- Refers to the interrelatedness of systems of
privilege and oppression
- The simultaneous influence of race, social class, gender,
sexuality, ethnicity, age, nation (etc.) on LIFE EXPECTATIONS
and LIFE CHANCES
- "Intersecting Inequalities" and
"Intersection of race and class"
- MATRIX Framework
- Illustrates that most people experience
BOTH privilege AND oppression
- Discouraging additive analyses of
oppressive systems that pit one oppressed
group against another
- Because all forms of oppression have the same source, members of oppressed groups would benefit from working together to restructure society in
ways that lead to greater equality for ALL groups