Liberation Psychology: The Psychology Of Oppression

1. Explain the author's primary point. The author seeks to bring to light the unfair treatment of the Negros by the whites in the places they live in. He also seeks to show that leaders only make empty promises to their people. Brutal cases are most among the Negros as they are attacked and their cases go unnoticed or ignored.

Oppression- Through this strong word, many leaders throughout history have taken complete power of their subordinates. No matter who the leader is or how he uses it, oppression is not at all ethical or just. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis committed many dreadful crimes against people of Europe: killing millions of people and oppressing even more. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace prize, Elie Wiesel argues that people must unite against the constant oppression around the world.

The abundant value of her provocative, concerning memoir is in exploring the psychological impact that racism could make on an individual, spreading a stain of self-doubt and self-hatred that, shared with lack of opportunities, abets black people in collectively destroying themselves all together. Drugs and violence, the disintegration of families and a range of other social difficulties are traced back to this common afflicted root. In Men We Reaped, Ward grapples with the self-condemnation: “We tried to ignore it, but sometimes we caught ourselves repeating what history said, mumbling along, brainwashed: I am nothing. We drank too much, smoked too much, were abusive to ourselves, to each other. We were bewildered.”

Prior to the Holocaust, labels were made on the Jewish legally. The German government ratified the Nuremberg Laws, a series of laws released gradually, increasing with labels and discrimination each time. The gradual ramping of labels and discrimination nullified the blow and made it noticeable only to those enforcing them and the Jews being discriminated against. The laws show the progression of labels into discrimination by first broadening the identification of Jews as those practicing Judaism to “anyone… descended from at least three grandparents who were fully Jewish” (NSDAP 2.5.1). The laws continued by taking away “full political rights in accordance with the provision of the law” (NSDAP 1.2.3).

Conformity and group mentality are major aspects of social influence that have governed some of the most notorious events and experiments in history. The Holocaust is a shocking example of group mentality, or groupthink, which states that all members of the group must support the group’s decisions strongly, and all evidence leading to the contrary must be ignored. Social norms are an example of conformity on a smaller scale, such as tipping your waiter or waitress, saying please and thank you, and getting a job and becoming a productive member of society. Our society hinges on an individual’s inherent need to belong and focuses on manipulating that need in order to create compliant members of society by using the ‘majority rules’ concept. This

She conveys ideas of internalised oppression, involuntarily imposed upon to follow strict social rules, the act of people erasing cultural heritage, as well as the importance of embracing personal heritage. Throughout her essay,

MENTAL HEALTH: BLACK COMMUNITY Mental Health in the Black community has rapidly grown overtime. According to the Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. (Mental Health American p. 3) Mental health disorder is popular in the Black community. Which can include: depression, ADHD and PTSD, which usually stem from either a violent past or background.

Oppression shapes the oppressed to have a loss of hope. Throughout life, people go through hardships that shape them to think a certain way. Usually, when people go through hard times, they think negatively about life, and they feel as if nothing will get better. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel was a jew during the holocaust. When in the concentration camps he lost confidence in himself, he began to lose hope, he writes, “It was my turn.

Oppression is a continuous issue in societies globally. In United States history African Americans are a prime example of people that have been oppressed. During the 1800s and 1900s many reforms took place that was to help advance the lives of African Americans. Although the reforms were put into place African Americans continued to live in a society which they were oppressed, degraded, and seen as inferior. From this period of U.S. history many works of literature were created that expressed their views on how to approach and resolve the issue of oppression.

Introduction Human history is abundant in examples of individuals who have amassed such power with themselves that have allowed them to control entire populations, and often unleash tyranny and oppression upon millions of people. Throughout history there have been individuals who have held an iron grip over entire nations, concentrating totalitarian power with themselves, denying any freedom to people, crushing any form of dissent, and often unleashing mass violence, terror, and in some cases genocide. These people have shaped the future of peoples, regions and continents, starting wars and conflicts, and determining the course of millions of lives. And because of this very fact, that a single person could such a huge impact over the lives of so many people, it is very important to study the very factors that caused these individuals to make the decisions that they did, specifically, the factors and that shaped up the personality of these

Power is one aspect of social work practice that needs to be considered in reflecting on any situation or action. Reflection focused on anti-oppressive practice is concerned with the social worker’s understanding of the institutions of power and his or her understanding of power, and his or her understanding of identity as being constructed within a society that creates interlocking oppressions. Power is seen as ‘a social relation that may open up or close off opportunities for individuals or social groups’ (Tew,2002: 165) where ‘opportunity’ may involve anything from accessing resources and social or economic participation, through to developing personal identities and capabilities, expressing needs, and feelings and renegotiating. Power Dimensions below are relevant to our case. Ethnicity (Cultural deficitism), There is a common view that prevails that 'immigrants’ try to adhere to cultural patterns and beliefs which are

Fanon uses psychoanalytic theory to explain the feeling of interdependency and unfitness that black people experienced in white world. That they divided self-perception of the black woman and man has lost their native cultural origin. It is because of black woman feels inferior that she aspires to gain their entry into white world. For Fanon, it is important to recognize that Black people do not indeed feel they are inferior.

Marx presents a more practical understanding of immigration, whereas Fanon's theories are more abstract and deals with matters in a more poetic and sentimental way. Fanon theory regarding Black and White relations is exemplified in his theories regarding colonization. In Fanon’s chapter titled “The lived Experience of a Black Man” Fanon addresses the issue of race and mainly, the condition of Black men in a white Society. According to Fanon; “In the white world, the man of color encounters difficulties in elaborating his body schema. The image of one’s body is solely negating.

They are either oppressed physically, socially, psychologically, or politically, in some way or another.

Anti-oppressive theory utilizes user involvement and participation to break down power relations between structures and individuals by: identifying the problem areas, following the five steps outlined in the practice, and presenting service users with tangible plans to immerse themselves in the society (Wilson & Beresford, 2000). Anti-oppressive practice recognizes the structuralist perspective