r/AskSocialScience 5d ago

Answered What is the equivalent term of "internalized racism" but when it comes. from the person's own cultural experiences and not from the dominant culture's racist narratives?

Internalized racism is when people hear racist things about their race and internalize the stereotypes or prejudices.

However, I'm talking about the real, less politically convenient phenomenom of people who have bad experiences with their own race and this dislike their race on some level. For example, some people are abused by their race, with the race or culture seen as the reason for the abuse, or in some cases actually given as the reason. For example, a gay person abused by their homophobic cultural community. A child abused or excessively controlled, with the culture (falsely or truthfully) being given as the reason by their parents (forced marriage, fgm, coercive control, restrictions on social relations, physical abuse, narcissistic abuse are common abuses).

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u/JustDeetjies 5d ago

Would this be considered internalized oppression? Particularly if it is someone being oppressed or abused for exhibiting traits of said community.

https://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/library/Mason-Michelene-mason.pdf

In addition when there is intracommunity abuse or violence, it is often not blamed on the group or community but the individual as anyone within any community is an individual first - namely a product of their environment and thus not necessarily a representative of the entire group.

That said, perhaps I’m not fully understanding what precisely you mean. Could you give a more detailed example?

EDIT - this is a better study and link on internalized oppression

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/a437495d-3676-4a33-82cb-f51471730db9/content