Sartre on the Creation of Oppressed-Group Identity

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Sartre on the Creation of Oppressed-Group Identity

It is easy to think of the persecution of minority groups as a relationship between a group of people who are in power and a group of people who have little to no power. However, this would be misleading because the relationship between oppressors and the oppressed is much more complex than that, according to an argument by Sartre. He argues that the oppressors actually create the group identity of the oppressed. This paper will examine his argument, and show how the writings of other scholars flesh out his description of the process by which this occurs. According to this argument, it is a matter of individual decisions made…