As soon as we are able to see the world and to make judgments, we experience hierarchy, status, and power. As early as elementary school, children are grouped; lined up by size and sex and certain individuals are always chosen to be leaders. As we grow older, there are those who are able to get what they want and have a life of one opportunity after another, while others live in a daily struggle characterized …showed first 75 words of 652 total…

…showed last 75 words of 652 total…in their heart of hearts and deep in their consciousness, or is there a place very deep inside where they are aware that it is wrong. Minority groups are getting control over the definitions that apply to them. Women are re-defining the place of women in history through women's studies. The transformation from "black" to "African-American" is also an example of an attempt to gain the control of the definitions of minority groups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**