Chapter 3 - Intersections of Identity Flashcards
health care workers are anti-oppressive agents because they:
- are experts in discomfort
- see people as people (scientifically)
- already help people do unwanted things that are good for them
ways to be in community/patient agreement:
listen actively, speak from personal experience, respectfully challenge, don’t invalidate, have the goal of gaining a deeper understanding, participate to the fullest, allow others to participate
how are prejudices formed?
personal and cultural lenses
social identity
aspects of who you are as seen be yourself and others
privilege
a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
oppression
prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control
social oppression
oppression achieved through social means and that is social in scope
colorism
lightest to darkest skin tone divisions
the collective black
African American, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Vietnamese, Cambodian
honorary whites
Chilean, Argentine, costa rican, Cuban, Japanese, Korean, filipino, chinese
racism
social construction dating to colonization constructed to create and maintain social, economic, and political power for a dominant racial group at the expense of other racial groups
internalized racism
private racial beliefs held by an individual
interpersonal racism
how we act upon our racial beliefs when we interact with others
institutional racism
racial inequities within institution and systems of power
structural racism
racial bias across institutions and society
