Les Nègres (1958; The Blacks), less visual in its obscenity, was no more careful of the audience's sensibilities, tearing apart the verbal and social discourses that create and sustain racial oppression.
He writes of Khomeini's calm determination to sustain domestic oppression as a means of enabling the Islamic republic to weather these crises: "the great wheel of terror did not differentiate between kith and kin.
As Jewish Israelis, the ethnicity and nationality we were born into puts us on the side of those in power who are sustaining ongoing oppression of Palestinians.
You come away feeling that sexism can be solved if only enough people become aware of its existence; as if systems of oppression are sustained largely by innocent ignorance.
Feminists have shown that not only deformed desires, but these and other similar factors operate through women's own psychology to help sustain their own oppression.
On the one hand, sexist behavior, no matter who causes it, sustains women's oppression and harms women, so we might want to hold responsible and blame these women for their participation in the system.
A group's oppression is likely to be sustained if no one is held responsible and no subsequent action taken to end it.
Psychological oppression contributes to a group's oppression also by molding the oppressed and co-opting them so that their choices and decisions harm them while benefiting the privileged, thereby sustaining the system of oppression.
It is widely believed that the maroon spirit has sustained African people's willingness and ability to resist and revolt against all forms of oppression, then and now.
It deals with the Western world's hyper-consumerism and oppression of native peoples and African slaves, which is how it obtained and sustained its power the very techniques that Braxton sees as eventually bringing about its downfall.
