Similarly, "controlling images," such as stereotypes of Black women, which are linguistically and visually transmitted through literature, news media, television, and so forth, provide "ideological justifcation" for their continued oppression (Collins, 2000, Chapter 4).
many groups have sought to bring about social changes through changes in language, disrupting patterns of oppression and marginalization via so-called "gender-fair" language (Sczesny et al., 2016;Menegatti and Rubini, 2017), language that is more inclusive to people with disabilities (ADA, 2018), and language that is less dehumanizing (e.g., abandoning the use of the term "illegal" in everyday discourse on immigration in the U.S. (Rosa, 2019)).