This semester in our english 1102 class we decided to focus on “Young's” Five Faces of oppression. The five types consist of violence , exploitation , marginalization , powerlessness , and cultural imperialism . For my group's topic we chose violence as the type of oppression we would each separately go in depth on. We all had a personal tie to the type of violence we chose. The violence I decided to speak on is racial violence. My connection to this is that I belong to a racial minority being African American. Everyone knows that racial violence occurs everyday , but I would specifically like to focus on police brutality.Even though police brutality is a well known topic I would like to bring more attention to this ongoing issue.
English 1102