Shifting Away from Social Identities and Categories

Ivie Mims — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:24:43 +0000

Here with in the United States, there is growing demand for a societal change in how we currently conceptualize and value social labels. Social labels are seen as valuable because it allows us to easily identify, associate, and group people who share a social label. However the grouping of individuals based on their label into social groups like race and gender have been the justification for the perpetuation of systematic oppression for centuries. The oppression ...

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Shifting Away from Social Identities and Categories