Editing Internalized oppression (section)

==Causes==
Internalized oppression "occurs when a person comes to [[Internalization (sociology)|internalize]] oppressive prejudices and biases about the identity group(s) to which he or she belongs".<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last1=Joseph, Valerie and Tanya O. Williams|date=2009|title=Good Niggers: The Struggle to Find Courage, Strength and Confidence to Fight Internalized Racism and Internalized Dominance|journal=Democracy and Education|volume=17|issue=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cross, Jr.|first1=William E.|title=Identity Work: Enactment of Racial-Ethnic Identity in Everyday Life|journal=Identity |date=2017|volume=17|issue=1|pages=1–12|doi=10.1080/15283488.2016.1268535|hdl=2429/66263|s2cid=151785936|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite journal|last1=Bartky|first1=Sandra Lee|title=Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power|journal=Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance|date=1988}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite journal|last1=Liebow|first1=Nabina|date=Fall 2016|title=Internalized Oppression and Its Varied Moral Harms: Self-Perceptions of Reduced Agency and Criminality|journal=Hypatia|volume=31|issue=4|pages=713–729|doi=10.1111/hypa.12265|s2cid=148200668}}</ref> It occurs when "[s]ocial oppression such as racism, sexism, ableism, classism, heterosexism, gender and religious oppression, and anti-Semitism" are "implanted by and [work] toward the benefit of any dominant group".<ref name=":0" /> Internalized oppression "depends on [[wiktionary:systemic|systemically]] limiting, blocking, and undermining" the "success, innovation, and power" of oppressed individuals or groups.<ref name=":0" /> Some individuals will copy and internalize "institutionalized rejection of difference," failing "to examine the distortions which result from ... misnaming [these differences] and their effects on human behavior and expectations."<ref name="Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Re">{{cite journal|last1=Lorde|first1=Audre|title=Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference|journal=Sister Outsider|date=1984}}</ref>

===Related theories===
French philosopher [[Michel Foucault]] "has argued that the rise of parliamentary institutions and of new conceptions of political liberty was accompanied by a darker counter-movement, by the emergence of a new and unprecedented discipline directed against the body. More is required of the body now than mere political allegiance or the approbation of the products of its labor: the new discipline invades the body and seeks to regulate its very forces and operations, the economy and efficiency of its movements&nbsp;... the production of 'docile bodies' requires that an uninterrupted coercion be directed to the very processes of bodily activity, not just their result; this 'micro-physics of power' fragments and partitions the body's time, its space, and its movements".<ref name=":1" />

The 18th-century English philosopher [[Jeremy Bentham]]'s [[Panopticon]] is a theoretical model of Foucault's ideas. Its constant state of surveillance, imposed by an oppressive external force, serves {{"'}}to induce in the inmate a state of consciousness and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power'; each becomes to himself his own jailer".<ref name=":1" />