disenfranchisements
Stripped civic participation rights
Disenfranchisements are acts or instances of stripping people of rights—especially voting rights, but also broader privileges of membership or participation.
The word appears in discussions of voter suppression, historical exclusion of minorities, or any systematic removal of civic standing: The disenfranchisements of the Jim Crow era lasted nearly a century.
Forcible prevention or concealment
- ballotsVoting forms
- pollsOpinion surveys or voting sites
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
restrictions · elections · suffrage · exclusion · purges · felony · redistricting · turnout
Relegation to powerless periphery
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
powerlessness · apartheid · segregation · colonialism · subjugation · underrepresentation · silencing · institutional
Severe lack of resources
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- wage theftEmployer withholding earned compensation
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
unbanked · debt · foreclosure · eviction · displacement · gentrification · labor rights · union busting
Owners of company stock
- stakeholdersThose with investment in outcome
- mergersCorporate consolidations
- acquisitionsThings newly gained
- buyoutsPurchases of entire companies
proxy · dilution · governance · takeovers · restructuring · devaluation · ownership · equity
suppression
Forcible prevention or concealment
- ballotsVoting forms
- pollsOpinion surveys or voting sites
- registrationFormal recording of participation
gerrymandering · restrictions · elections · suffrage · exclusion · purges · felony · redistricting · turnout · access
marginalization
Relegation to powerless periphery
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
exclusion · powerlessness · apartheid · segregation · colonialism · subjugation · underrepresentation · silencing · institutional · caste
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- wage theftEmployer withholding earned compensation
- exploitationSelfish use of others
redlining · unbanked · debt · foreclosure · eviction · displacement · gentrification · labor rights · union busting · gig economy
shareholders
Owners of company stock
- stakeholdersThose with investment in outcome
- mergersCorporate consolidations
- acquisitionsThings newly gained
buyouts · proxy · dilution · governance · takeovers · restructuring · devaluation · ownership · equity · stock
disenfranchisementsenfranchisements
Grants of citizenship rights
enfranchisement · suffrage · voting rights · franchise · enfranchising
disenfranchisementsempowerments
Grants of authority
self-determination · agency · autonomy · liberation · voice
disenfranchisementsinclusion
Being made part
inclusions · integration · enfranchisement · acceptance · belonging
- voter disenfranchisementRemoving citizens' electoral participation rights