Editing Internalized oppression (section)

==Manifestations==
According to [[Audre Lorde]], manifestations of internalized oppression include voluntary isolation.<ref name="Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Re"/> She describes the relationship between older members of an oppressed group and younger members of the same group as "contemptible or suspect or excess."{{sic}}<ref name="Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Re"/> This [[generation gap]] leads to "historical amnesia", with oppressed minorities repeating the learning process and failing to convey knowledge to subsequent generations.<ref name="Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Re"/> Lorde cites oppressed individuals as "encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of [one]self and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of the self";<ref name="Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Re"/> they may hesitate to breach the false stereotypes surrounding them or verbalize resistance to violence.<ref name="Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Re"/> The most common manifestation is self-hatred.<ref name="Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Re"/>

Racial manifestations include "multifaceted and extreme psychological, social, and economic self-sabotage"; a tendency to "defer to [[White people|whites]]", and feelings of being "not [[Black people|black]] enough".<ref name=":0" /> The self is viewed as a diminished, deviant, criminal and undeserving moral agent.<ref name=":2" /> [[Sandra Bartky]] identified disturbances in [[body image]], [[gender expression]] and power dynamics as manifestations of internalized sexism in women.<ref name=":1" />