Understanding Oppression and Institutions

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True or False: Ways in which dominant groups exert control over marginalized groups by limiting their rights, freedom, and resources is oppression.

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True

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Rules, policies, procedures that make up the structures of our society that limit peoples rights is an example of what type of oppression?

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Institutional

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Which of the following is NOT an example of an institution? Healthcare/Hospital, Government, Police/Jails, White supremacy

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White supremacy

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Which of the following was NOT an oppressive act towards African Americans in the 1890s?
- couldn't vote
- poll tax to vote
- literacy test to vote
- sterilization

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sterilization

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Which of the following was an oppressive act towards Latin women in the 1960s-1970s in East LA? poll tax, literacy test, sterlization without consent, sterlization with consent

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sterlization without consent

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What were the infamous laws called that punished African Americans after the Civil War?

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Jim Crow Laws

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True or False: Oppression is not cruel treatment, and occurs for a short period of time.

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False

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True or False: Latina women were not forced to be sterilized in the 1960s.

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False

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Which of the following is an example of an institution? Streets, Houses, Government, Religion/Church

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Religion/Church

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True or False: Workplace policies that fail to provide adequate maternity leave or punish women for taking time off are examples of institutional oppression.

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True