Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Personal/Public Scholarship
Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Personal/Public Scholarship
ISBN: 978-94-6351-139-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
Finalist in the categories Multi-Cultural Nonfiction and Education/Academic.
A contemporary alternative to the other texts on the market featuring original essays.
Contributors include Jean Kilbourne, Robin M. Boylorn, and Donna Y. Ford
Privilege Through the Looking-Glass is a collection of original essays that explore privilege and status characteristics in daily life. This collection seeks to make visible that which is often invisible. It seeks to sensitize us to things we have been taught not to see. Privilege, power, oppression, and domination operate in complex and insidious ways, impacting groups and individuals, and yet, these forces that affect our lives so deeply seem to at once operate in plain sight and lurk in the shadows, making them difficult to discern. Like water to a fish, environments are nearly impossible to perceive when we are immersed in them. This book attempts to expose our environments. With engaging and powerful writing, the contributors share their personal stories as a means of connecting the personal and the public.
This volume applies an intersectional perspective to explore how race, class, gender, sexuality, education, and ableness converge, creating the basis for privilege and oppression. Privilege Through the Looking-Glass encourages readers to engage in self and social reflection, and can be used in a range of courses in sociology, social work, communication, education, gender studies, and African American studies. Each chapter includes discussion questions and/or activities for further engagement.
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Acknowledgements xv
1. Introduction to Privilege Through the Looking-Glass
Patricia Leavy
2. Unpacking (Un)Privilege or Flesh Tones, Red Bones, and Sepia
Shades of Brown
Robin M. Boylorn
3. Men Hug Me at Work: Juxtaposing Privilege with Everyday Sexism
Adrienne Trier-Bieniek
4. The Voice of White Male Power and Privilege: An Autoethnography
Christopher N. Poulos
5. I Am My Grandmother’s Child: Becoming a Black Woman Scholar
Venus E. Evans-Winters
6. Angryblackscholar: Unpacking White Privilege as a Black Female
Unapologetically Claiming and Asserting My Right to Live
My Dreams
Donna Y. Ford
7. My Responsibility to Change
Liza Talusan
8. Black Here, Oburni There: Differentials in Race and Privilege
in the United States and West Africa
Amy L. Masko
9. Buying a Better World? The Intersections of Consumerism, Class,
and Privilege in Global Women’s Rights Activism
Mayme Lefurgey
10. Reflections on Rural: Why Place Can Be Privilege and How
“Common Sense” Understandings Hurt Rural Students
Sarrah J. Grubb
11. Being a (Gay) Duck in a Family of (Heterosexual) Swans
Tony E. Adams
12. Swirling Shades of Right and Wrong
Tammy Bird
13. Male or Female? Everyday Life When the ‘Or’ Is ‘And'
Em Rademaker
14. Transcending Gender Binarization: The Systematic Policing of
Genderfluid Identity and Presentation
Shalen Lowell
15. Titanium Tits
Kate Birdsall
16. On Not Being a Victoria’s Secret Model: A Critical Analysis of
My Struggle with Social Comparison and Objectification
Lisa Barry
17. The Ephemeral Passport
Jean Kilbourne
18. It’s a Small World: The Metabletics of Size
Lisa Phillips
19. The Pen Stops
Nancy La Monica
20. Responsive Stories: Sharing Evocative Tales from the Inside, Out
miroslav pavle manovski
21. Death by a Thousand Cuts: From Self-Hatred to Acceptance
U. Melissa Anyiwo
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