Research project on white supremacy and intersectionality
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
THE ASSIGNMENT:
“Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all assigned multiple social identities. Within each category, there is a hierarchy—a social status with dominant and non-dominant groups...a person of the non-dominant group can experience oppression in the form of limitations, disadvantages, or disapproval. They may even suffer abuse from individuals, institutions, or cultural practices. ‘Oppression’ refers to a combination of prejudice and institutional power that creates a system that regularly and severely discriminates against some groups and benefits other groups…Audre Lorde is credited with the quote, “There is no hierarchy of oppressions.” What she meant by this is that “all oppressions must be recognized and fought against simultaneously. She pushed American society to understand that although we possess different identities, we are all connected as human beings” (Smithsonian).
Your assignment is to identify and examine a system of oppression (discriminatory institutions, structures, and norms that are deeply embedded in society) that currently exists in the world today and assess how it actively and continually harms or traumatizes the country/world and its inhabitants.
“Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all assigned multiple social identities. Within each category, there is a hierarchy—a social status with dominant and non-dominant groups...a person of the non-dominant group can experience oppression in the form of limitations, disadvantages, or disapproval. They may even suffer abuse from individuals, institutions, or cultural practices. ‘Oppression’ refers to a combination of prejudice and institutional power that creates a system that regularly and severely discriminates against some groups and benefits other groups…Audre Lorde is credited with the quote, “There is no hierarchy of oppressions.” What she meant by this is that “all oppressions must be recognized and fought against simultaneously. She pushed American society to understand that although we possess different identities, we are all connected as human beings” (Smithsonian).
Your assignment is to identify and examine a system of oppression (discriminatory institutions, structures, and norms that are deeply embedded in society) that currently exists in the world today and assess how it actively and continually harms or traumatizes the country/world and its inhabitants.