Adapted from “Institutional Oppression,†Tools for Diversity, © TACS.

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The following definition reflects some concepts used to describe the institutional suppression process.

The institution is a fairly stable social arrangement and practice, including collective action within the United States, including law, education, medical care, social welfare, government, media and criminal justice system.

Institutional repression is the systematic abuse of people within a socially recognized group and is supported by society and its institution based entirely on the individual membership in the social identity group , Has been strengthened.

Institutional repression arises in cases where established laws, customs, and practices are systematically reflected and unfair on the basis of the members of the targeted social identity group. Where institutional laws, customs or practices have oppressive influences, you will feel that institutions are depressed, regardless of whether an individual who defends the system has a repressive intention.

Institutional oppression creates an invisible barrier system that limits people based on membership of an unpopular social identity group. These obstacles are invisible only to people who "seemingly not affected at first glance" people.

Institutional oppression practice is based on beliefs about inherent superiority or inferiority. Regardless of intention, institutional suppression is the result of the problem.

Stereotypes are attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and assumptions about widely socially recognized target groups. It can be positive or negative, but it has a negative impact. The stereotype helps maintain institutional oppression by seeming to be verifying erroneous information and beliefs

Prejudice is usually a favorable or unfavorable view or feeling towards an individual or group formed without knowledge, thought, or reason. It can be based on a single experience and then transfer or undertake all the potential experiences

The open form of oppression is open and observable, neither secret nor hidden. The purpose of severe repression is clear about suppressive behavior, intention and behavior of oppressors and groups.

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Hidden form suppression may be secret, hidden, unopened, or subtle. People targeting hidden suppression may not be aware that suppression has occurred later, and who performs this action. Often hidden forms of oppressive targets may guess their response to self and hidden repression.

Internalization and internalization of oppression. From a dominant perspective, it is easy to treat oppressed people as "time" and reflect their response to oppression as a series of "psychological problems". This obscures the role of system, structure and institutionalization in the occurrence and reproduction of oppression. Likewise, from a main stream point of view, personal psychological defects are very easy to explain, so look at racial discrimination, sex discrimination, homosexuality etc for prejudice, prejudice, or ignorance It is easy. It is not racist! "Or" I mean nothing. " In addition, this view leads to solutions to prejudice and prejudice through education, training and treatment - individual level intervention - emphasizing the need for changing individual attitudes - nothing further.

But since our analysis begins with slavery, we have chosen the term "institutional repression". In addition, a cross-cutting epistemological framework is used to focus on oppression, overlapping of structural racial discrimination, and cultural atmosphere of unfounded stereotypes and the recognition of African-American male groups. In her article "Knocking the Edge" which was originally created by Kimberle 'Crenshaw (1991), it is based on various methods of "Interaction between ethnicity and gender to shape various aspects of employment experience of black women" I will cross. (1991, 1244). Over the past two decades, various scholars in various fields have studied cross-sectoral interrelationships in specific research trends.