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Books : Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America (Critical America) |
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.3
EAN: 9789996181719
ISBN: 9996181715
Publication Date: 1996-06
Sales Rank: 7168581
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Affirmative action remains a hotly contested issue on our political landscape, yet the institutionalized systems of privilege which uphold the status quo remain unchallenged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them. For example, many Americans rely on a social and sometimes even financial inheritance from previous generations. This inheritance, unlikely to be forthcoming if one's ancestors were slaves, privileges whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality.
In this important volume, scholars positioned differently with respect to white privilege examine how privilege of all forms manifests itself and how we can, and must, be aware of invisible privilege in our daily lives. Individual chapters focus on language, the workplace, the implications of comparing racism and sexism, race-based housing privilege, the dream of diversity and the cycle of exclusion, the rule of law and invisible systems of privilege, and the power of law to transform society.
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In a series of lively and thought-provoking essays, Wildman and her colleagues shed light on the issue of privilege in America. Though the writers are law professors, the book is very accessible to all readers. I enjoyed it!
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This is a book that keeps on giving long after you put it down. Many of us know we abhor discrimination and intolerance, yet fail to understand our lofty ideals are perched on a wide ledge of privilege. Why do people in the ghettos burn their domains? Why haven't more cases of equal opportunities for African-Americans been realized? What is a concerned white person supposed to do? Which is heterosexuality - a default or a choice? Why does the work of individuals in the caring professions become devalued as they strive to meet society's most prominent altruistic goals? This collection of provocative suggestions has the potential to reframe our debates about current issues in the American experience.
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