Title: 
Headings: FIVE FACES OF OPPRESSION
FIVE
 
FACES
 
OF
 
OPPRESSION
 

What
 
is
 
Oppression?
 

What
 
the
 
Different
 
Types
 
of
 
Oppression?
 

conscientization.
 


Content: In
 
most
 
cases,
 
it
 
means
 
not
 
voting
 
or
 
participating
 
in
 
any
 
decision
 
making
 
process. However,
 
the
 
deeper
 
forms
 
of
 
powerlessness
 
are
 
far
 
more
 
insidious. Brazilian
 
educational
 
philosopher
 
Paulo
 
Freire
 
believes
 
that
 
powerlessness
 
is
 
the
 
strongest
 
form
 
of
 
oppression
 
because
 
it
 
allows
 
people
 
to
 
oppress
 
themselves
 
and
 
others. It
 
is
 
easiest
 
to
 
explain
 
by
 
making
 
a
 
connection
 
to
 
Harriet
 
Tubman,
 
a
 
famous
 
freed
 
African
 
American
 
runaway
 
slave
 
and
 
abolitionist. Tubman
 
once
 
wrote
 
“I
 
would
 
have
 
free
 
thousands
 
more,
 
if
 
they
 
had
 
known
 
they
 
were
 
slaves.” In
 
these
 
words,
 
Tubman
 
conveys
 
that
 
some
 
slaves
 
felt
 
so
 
powerless,
 
thought
 
so
 
little
 
of
 
themselves,
 
and
 
were
 
so
 
indoctrinated
 
by
 
the
 
mindsets
 
of
 
their
 
slave
 
masters
 
that
 
they
 
didn’t
 
realize
 
that
 
they
 
were
 
slaves. In
 
fact,
 
its
 
quite
 
possible
 
some
 
slaves
 
didn’t
 
even
 
realize
 
that
 
something
 
was
 
wrong
 
with
 
society
 
and
 
that
 
they
 
were
 
being
 
treated
 
unjustly. This
 
is
 
an
 
example
 
of
 
powerlessness
 
that
 
creates
 
what
 
Freire
 
calls
 
a
 
Culture
 
of
 
Silence. According
 
to
 
Freire,
 
oppressed
 
people
 
become
 
so
 
powerless
 
that
 
they
 
do
 
not
 
even
 
talk
 
about
 
their
 
oppression. If
 
they
 
reach
 
this
 
stage
 
of
 
oppression,
 
it
 
creates
 
a
 
culture
 
wherein
 
it
 
is
 
forbidden
 
to
 
even
 
mention
 
the
 
injustices
 
that
 
are
 
being
 
committed.