This weeks reading really summarizes the purpose of this class. To be able to recognize how high powers have constructed social structures to divide the powerless in order to keep them powerless has been a main focus of this class. In Valverde's conclusion of
Fight the Tower she talks about the sacrifice one must make to "live for the people". This is the exact opposite of what the powers that oppress us have done. They come in with the promise to live for us and to fight for us when they truly have their own agendas and do not plan on truly delivering on their promises.
The reason we are divided is to keep us in check in order to prevent us from rising up and bringing the powers down. How can we fight this division and take down the elite that binds us in our position? I think
Fight the Tower addresses this problem in the academic world, but what about for general society. I would like to see a solution for that.
Citations:
Dariotis, W. M & Valverde, K. L. (n.d.). "Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke". From Fight the Tower.
Jones, A. (2010). Internalized Oppression and Its Impact on Social Change.
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