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" On a subtler level, the structure of framework inheres an intimate and complex segregation, a 'conjugated oppression'. Philippe Bourgois coins this term in his analysis of a Central American banana plantation to show that ethnicity and class work together to produce an oppression experientially and materially different from that produced by either alone. "

, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States


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 quote : On a subtler level, the structure of framework inheres an intimate and complex segregation, a 'conjugated oppression'. Philippe Bourgois coins this term in his analysis of a Central American banana plantation to show that ethnicity and class work together to produce an oppression experientially and materially different from that produced by either alone.