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

What
 
is
 
Oppression?
 

What
 
the
 
Different
 
Types
 
of
 
Oppression?
 

conscientization.
 


Content: The
 
idea
 
of
 
powerlessness
 
links
 
to
 
Marx’s
 
theory
 
of
 
socialism: some
 
people
 
“have”
 
power
 
while
 
others
 
“have-not”. The
 
powerless
 
are
 
dominated
 
by
 
the
 
ruling
 
class
 
and
 
are
 
situated
 
to
 
take
 
orders
 
and
 
rarely
 
have
 
the
 
right
 
to
 
give
 
them. Some
 
of
 
the
 
fundamental
 
injustices
 
associated
 
with
 
powerlessness
 
are
 
inhibition
 
to
 
develop
 
one’s
 
capacities,
 
lack
 
of
 
decision
 
making
 
power,
 
and
 
exposure
 
to
 
disrespectful
 
treatment
 
because
 
of
 
the
 
lowered
 
status. In
 
the
 
U.S.,
 
the
 
powerless
 
do
 
not
 
participate
 
in
 
basic
 
democratic
 
processes
 
because
 
they
 
feel
 
that
 
they
 
can’t
 
or
 
that
 
their
 
participation
 
won’t
 
mean
 
anything. 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.”