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Using an object, color, or image to stand for a bigger idea. Example: a dove representing peace, or a broken chain representing freedom.
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A story whose characters and events stand for a hidden political or moral meaning. Example: Orwell's Animal Farm, where farm animals represent the Russian Revolution.
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Type of violence or inequality built into laws and institutions rather than done by one person. Example: unequal school funding that leaves some neighborhoods with fewer resources.
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Type of violence found in beliefs, media, and traditions that make injustice seem normal. Example: movies that always cast one group as villains.
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Type of violence that's visible and physical, with a clear person causing the harm. Example: a physical attack or police beating.
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Oversimplified, often harmful generalizations about a whole group of people. Example: assuming someone is bad at math because of their gender.
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A first-person account of what someone witnessed or lived through. Example: a survivor sharing their story in court or in a memoir.
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Unity and mutual support among people who share a cause or struggle. Example: workers from different unions joining one another's strike.
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A story told from the margins that challenges the dominant version of events. Example: retelling the colonization of the Americas from Indigenous peoples' point of view.
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Refusal to accept or comply with oppression, through protest, art, or everyday action. Example: Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat.
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Enforced separation of people by race or another group identity. Example: separate schools, restrooms, and water fountains under Jim Crow laws.
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Open disagreement with an official or majority opinion. Example: a Supreme Court justice writing a dissenting opinion, or citizens protesting a new law.
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