Racial oppression enlists the oppressor’s laboring classes in enforcing rule.
Evidence
The dialectic of the master and slave has its most concrete application here: in oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Males are in chains by their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that the wife demands checks, because men alone practice a profession that the wife demands that they succeed, because they alone embody transcendence that the wife wants to steal it from them by taking over their projects and successes. And inversely, the tyranny wielded by the woman only manifests her dependence: she knows the success of the couple, its future, its happiness, and its justification, resides in the hands of the other; if she bitterly seeks to subjugate him to her will, it is because she is alienated in him. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1370 (
#expands, via linked claim)
As a woman of color born in Puerto Rico and a colonized subject who lived in abject poverty into my late twenties, I have always been convinced that the center of gravity of oppression for those of us deemed as “other” is not simply the psychological aberration of white people toward people of color. Rather, the racialization processes experienced by the oppressed are intractably connected to the manner in which the colonial matrix of power persists in the domination and exploitation of our communities by the wealthy and powerful elite—and enacted, for the most part, by those who are not themselves affluent, but who still chase the false myth of the American Dream in these neoliberal times. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1410 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
For this reason it is indispensable for the oppressors to keep the peasants isolated from the urban workers, just as it is indispensable to keep both groups isolated from the students. The testimony of rebellion of the latter (although they do not sociologically constitute a class) makes them dangerous in the event they join the people. It is thus necessary to convince the lower classes that students are irresponsible and disorderly, that their testimony is false because as students they should be studying, just as the factory workers and the peasants should be working towards the “nation’s progress.” — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 617 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Slaveholders deliberately sought alliance with Northern white labor on color caste — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 354; Oppression chains the oppressor as much as the oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1370; Oppressors maintain rule by isolating peasants, workers, and students from each other. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 617 (+1 more)
Related
- Oppressors maintain rule by isolating peasants, workers, and students from each other. (similarity 0.87)
- Oppression of racialized others primarily serves the wealthy, not ordinary white people (similarity 0.81)
- Oppression chains the oppressor as much as the oppressed. (similarity 0.79)
- Oppressors recast the oppressed as the violent ones (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Oppression chains the oppressor as much as the oppressed.
#expands(0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1370 - Oppressors maintain rule by isolating peasants, workers, and students from each other.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 617 - Oppression of racialized others primarily serves the wealthy, not ordinary white people
#complicates(0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1410