Conversations for the Mathematics Community

Assignment 1, Mark Otto

1. Define:
• Ideological oppression: Dividing into us and them. We are by genetics, culture, and character in are superior, e.g., we are different. We are the chosen ones. They are nowhere in history. What have they done?
• Institutional oppression: Where ideological oppression is ingrained in society and institutions. Build our beliefs into our institutions e.g., TAG in schools, law enforcement where the racism of the community determines the law enforcement abuse, TSA where my son is always checked at random. See the contract is broken.
• Interpersonal oppression: Where conscious or unconscious oppression shades how we see them, e.g., lying on the beach rating the girls 1 to 10, giving black kids room just in case, what do we do to bring them up to our level, fat people are fat because they eat too much.
• Internalized oppression: Where they believe the oppression.

3. Type of oppression:
20. Alice Silverman: Institutional-Harvard women enrolled in Radcliffe and no tenured math professors, personal-Radcliffe bitches and “concerned alumni” want to revoke admitting women,
22. Pamela Harris: White students expecting their professor of color to take their late homework without showing respect: interpersonal oppression, Impostor syndrome: internalized oppression. Positive: We need to foster communities where we are all worthy of having productive and successful careers as mathematicians.