Oppression (revisited)

Oppression- Johnson mentions oppression in his chapter "Privilege, Oppression, and Difference" in his book Privilege, Power, and Difference as opposite to privilege in that certain groups are oppressed when other groups of people are privileged. He makes a distinction between feeling oppressed and actually being oppressed. He says that someone may feel oppressed from having privileges that allow them to take on certain responsibilities on pp. 38-39, but it's not the same as being oppressed by being withheld from certain privileges.

Week 2 addition:
Oppression is further discussed by Johnson in Chapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination of his book Privilege, Power, and Difference by saying that oppression works in a way that someone in positions of privilege can be opppressed in some way due to some other component of their identity compromising that privilege. For instance, on p. 52 he gives the example of the privileged white male whose privilege is compromised by his homosexuality.
Oppression also figures into the economic ladder. The few at the top have all the wealth and control its flow and therefore can do what they want with the economic status of those below them. They decide who is privileged and who is oppressed, and for some time, as Johnson says on pp. 45-49, the African American was in this position beginning with slavery to inequality after emancipation ,and to today as blacks are often paid less than whites for the same jobs.