KINE 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Patricia Hill Collins

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

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Each group identifies the type of oppression with which it feels most comfortable as being fundamental and classifies all other types as being of lesser importance (course. This way of thinking is called additive analysis . Additive analysis makes it seem as if race, class and gender oppression are unrelated, and as if my privilege and my being oppressed has nothing to do with your privilege and your oppression. Collins argues that to more effectively disrupt systems of oppression, we need to adopt new ways of thinking about it. Collins uses the example of the pre-civil war. Her idea is that each person"s role and position in the slave plantation institution contributes to everyone else"s domination by and subordination to this oppressive institution. She wants us to understand that the oppression of this institution cuts across racial, gender, and social class lines.