Trying to think of other words for oppression and dehumanization...

My first attempt (of many I’m sure) of writing a synthesis essay:

When I first thought about the prompt that we were asked to write a thesis for, I thought that oppressing others only leads to the dehumanization of the oppressed, but based on many of the stories we have read over the past few weeks, I find myself to be very wrong.  Looking at others as inferior dehumanizes both the one being looked upon as less, as well as the person making the other feel inferior.  In “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”, Douglas refers to the United States as “a nation of savages”(source G), meaning that people in United States act in a way that is so unjust and hypocritical, it doesn’t seem human.  The oppressor in this case is being dehumanized by the oppressed by being called a “savage”, as the oppressor is also making the oppressed feel subordinate by not giving them as many rights.  “There is No Unmarked Women” also deals with the relationship of the “other” and the “superior”.  When Tannen writes about when she was in a conference and she found herself “scrutinizing only the women”(source C), an important point is brought up here.  She, a woman, is doing the exact thing that she wants to be stopped, but also realizing that it is inevitable.  As Tannen discussed, women are seen for theirs styles, shoes, makeup, hairstyles, and the list goes on and on, while on the contrary, men aren’t so much based upon these materialistic things.  So I wonder how the oppressors are also being oppressed in this situation.  By oppressing this certain group, the oppressors dehumanize themselves by almost creating a"mob mentality".  This blog post may have gotten a bit wordy, but I tried not to overuse certain words!