Online Anti-Oppression Training
Anti-oppression training uses popular education techniques to show participants how they uncritically participate in racism, sexism and xenophobia. Training is designed to help participants identify cultural privileges and obstacles that are inherited via ethnic origins, sex, sexuality or nationality.
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Why Anti-Oppression Training?
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There are dozens of organizations around the world that have adopted anti-oppression training as essential to their own strategies. Internal divisions based on unexamined prejudices disrupt work in diverse groups, and a critical understanding of the cultural dynamics of prejudice and structural disadvantages has become a key tactic for overcoming these dynamics.
Online vs Offline
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There are multiple online resources for anti-oppression training, including visual aids, syllabi and concept papers. There are even some online training courses available for a price. But anti-oppression training is based on the philosophy of "popular education," which emphasizes practical exercises in face-to-face group environments. These face-to-face encounters with experienced facilitators are considered far more effective because the conflicts under review actually appear in the course of training.
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The McIntosh Checklists
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The most valuable online resources for anti-oppression training are the descriptions of the exercises themselves. They are listed more specifically as privilege, "white privilege," "male privilege" and so forth; another useful search parameter is "training material." A good way to begin familiarizing yourself with the core concepts for anti-oppression training is to review the "privilege lists" -- the checklists created by Peggy McIntosh, associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women.
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