Dominant groups deny their dependency on those they exclude

Evidence

Backgrounding/Denial: As a radically excluded, inferior and homogenized group, the Other is deemed inessential to the needs of the One. Thus, dependency on the Other by the One cannot be acknowledged or is minimized. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 597

Categorization

• DEFINE: A precise conceptual category naming the denial of dependency, useful across ecojustice and feminist analysis.
• XREF: connects to: Individualism treats humans as autonomous accumulators detached from community. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 551; Masters both rely on the dominated and deny that dependency through backgrounding. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 197; Dualism arises from denied dependency on a subordinated other. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 173 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Dominant groups defend privilege through bounded ideological justifications #complicates (0.82)
• Dominant groups mask their ethnicity as neutral universalism #expands (0.80)
• Subordinate groups often internalize dominant-group evaluations and derogate their own group #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2691
• Advantaged groups avoid guilt by denying inequality or dodging responsibility #complicates (0.75) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1844
• The desire to control, not hatred, drives dominant groups’ discrimination #complicates (0.72) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 141