Title: Marginalization - New Discourses
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Content: Marginalization - New Discourses
Marginalization
Social Justice Usage
Source: https://educatenotindoctrinate.org/glossaries/race-equity-glossary-of-terms/
The process in which groups of people are excluded by the wider society. Marginalization is often used in an economic or political sense to refer to the rendering of an individual, an ethnic or national group, or a nation-state powerless by a more powerful individual. …
Source: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230627390_5
In general, marginalizing refers to the process of relegating, downgrading, or excluding people from the benefits of society. New Discourses Commentary
There’s nothing wrong with the above definitions for marginalization, taken from Social Justice glossaries, as they are written. What’s wrong with them, and the understanding of the concept from within Social Justice, are the theoretical assumptions about how, when, where, and why marginalization occurs, which all necessarily proceed from Theory, even when Theory is presumptive, paranoid, delusional, or flatly wrong about what is going on. Theory generally presumes marginalization is either far more influential or far more unjust (or both) than it is in reality. In particular, Theory assumes that marginalization is systemic and ultimately rooted in mattes of identity, such as race, sex, gender, sexuality, and so on. That is, Social Justice Theory assumes that society is socially constructed in such a way that members of dominant groups (like white, male, masculine, straight, and so on) have built the system so that it excludes and oppresses members of marginalized groups (like people of color, women, femininity, homosexuals, and so on), their knowledge (s), and their “ ways of knowing .”