Privilege Revealed

Author : Stephanie M. Wildman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479825202

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Privilege Revealed by Stephanie M. Wildman Pdf

An in-depth examination of the different forms of privilege perpetuating inequality within American society In this era of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, inequality is at the forefront of American thought like never before. Yet many of the systems of privilege upholding the status quo remain unchanged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them. Men remain at the top of the gender wage gap and white people are five times less likely to be stopped by police than their Black neighbors. White families can build lives using social and financial inheritances that have been denied to Black Americans and immigrants for centuries. 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. Twenty-five years since its first publication, Privilege Revealed is more relevant than ever. With a new preface and substantive foreword, this book offers readers important insight into the inequalities still pervading American society and encourages us all to confront our own relationship to these too often invisible privileges.

Author : Kuldip S. Randhawa, B.Sc, M.Sc.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781504928366

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Absolute Privilege to Deprive by Kuldip S. Randhawa, B.Sc, M.Sc. Pdf

The author, as a self-representing litigant, a professional engineer suspended through bad faith discipline proceedings, and then subjected to victimization, tortuous interference, collateral attacks, abuse of process causing considerable loss. If you are a self-representing litigant, this book is absolutely necessary. The activities in Court, in the author being grid-locked into legal proceedings, in oppressive litigation commenced against him, he has exposed various frauds, so this book is an “eye-opener”. I have to admit that I am not a writer of legal books, or religious books, nor do I consider myself as a good writer, but one that is forced to write out of necessity for the greater good. This book is written with conviction and from the heart. The reason for this is that despite my considerable talents, abilities, education, at present I can truly relate to the suffering of others that are less fortunate. This book is the first book, and is written to “get the message out”. It is written on the basis that it is the first book of many, or perhaps the only book that I may be in a position to write. The interference of those that would want to bury me, and perhaps, even this book under ten feet of mud is clearly beyond my control. This book is “highly controversial” and includes a criminal complaint for the law enforcing authorities to investigate. The doctrine of absolute privilege when applied outside of the law, is a powerful racial or exploitation tool to be applied by lawyers in “having their way by any means possible” to carry out legalized scams.

Author : C. Maxwell,P. Aggleton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137292636

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Privilege, Agency and Affect by C. Maxwell,P. Aggleton Pdf

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privilege, agency and affect are linked, and where possibilities for social change might lie.

Author : Kim Case
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136176173

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Deconstructing Privilege by Kim Case Pdf

Although scholarly examinations of privilege have increased in recent decades, an emphasis on privilege studies pedagogy remains lacking within institutions. This edited collection explores best practices for effective teaching and learning about various forms of systemic group privilege such as that based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and class. Formatted in three easy-to-follow sections, Deconstructing Privilege charts the history of privilege studies and provides intersectional approaches to the topic. Drawing on a wealth of research and real-life accounts, this book gives educators both the theoretical foundations they need to address issues of privilege in the classroom and practical ways to forge new paths for critical dialogues in educational settings. Combining interdisciplinary contributions from leading experts in the field-- such as Tim Wise and Abby Ferber-- with pedagogical strategies and tips for teaching about privilege, Deconstructing Privilege is an essential book for any educator who wants to address what privilege really means in the classroom.

Author : Andrea L. Dottolo,Ellyn Kaschak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317235019

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Whiteness and White Privilege in Psychotherapy by Andrea L. Dottolo,Ellyn Kaschak Pdf

This unprecedented, interdisciplinary collection focuses on gender, whiteness, and white privilege, and sheds light on this understudied subject matter in the context of clinical psychology, in both theories and applications. Psychologists, especially therapists, are often trained to look for issues that are not readily visible, cannot be spoken, and that are commonly taken for granted. Feminist and multi-cultural researchers and practitioners further seek to expose the power structures that benefit them or that unfairly advantage some groups over others. Whiteness has been investigated by sociologists and critical race theorists, but has been largely overlooked by psychologists and psychotherapists, even those who deal with feminist and multi-cultural issues. This volume explores the ways in which gender, whiteness and white privilege intersect in the therapy room, bringing to light that which is often unseen and, thus, unnamed, while examining issues of epistemology, theory, supervision, and practice in feminist therapies. The various contributions encompass theory, history, empirical research, personal reflections, and practical teaching strategies for the classroom. The authors remind us that whiteness and other forms of privilege are situated among multiple other forces, structures, identities, and experiences, and cannot be examined alone, without context. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women & Therapy.

Author : Andrea L. Dottolo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000372663

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Lesbians and White Privilege by Andrea L. Dottolo Pdf

There are three overarching themes that connect the chapters: interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and identity. This interdisciplinary compilation includes contributions from scholars in cultural studies, social work, English, psychology, anthropology, and education. Essays include empirical research, making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as personal reflections and interpretation. Each chapter makes central the critical significance of intersectionality, locating privilege and oppression within larger social systems and institutional structures, as an ‘interlocking matrix of relationships.’ These chapters challenge, recognize, and question whiteness, with the intention that they encourage us to do the same, in our own lives, practices, behaviors, and disciplines. By taking whiteness seriously, we might begin to move toward explicit antiracist efforts, dismantling those structures and hierarchies that enable only some to speak as ‘just humans.’ The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Author : Stephanie Vandrick
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472033942

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Interrogating Privilege by Stephanie Vandrick Pdf

Interrogating Privilege is a welcome combination of personal essays and academic research, blending theory, analysis, and narrative to explore the function and consequences of privilege in second language education. While teachers’ focus on the learning process and class goals are quite important, there is not enough attention paid to the types of privilege—or lack thereof—that individuals bring to the classroom. Through chapters that can either stand alone or be read together, with topics such as gender, age, and colonialism (the author is the daughter of missionary parents) in second language teaching, this book seeks to address the experiences of teachers, scholars, and students as “whole persons” and to observe the workings of identity and privilege in the educational setting.

Author : Adam Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135901196

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Learning Privilege by Adam Howard Pdf

How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the burning questions he had as a teacher on the lessons affluent students are taught in schooling about their place in the world, their relationships with others, and who they are. Grounded in an extensive ethnographic account, Learning Privilege examines the concept of privilege itself and the cultural and social processes in schooling that reinforce and regenerate privilege. Howard explores what educators, students and families at elite schools value most in education and how these values guide ways of knowing and doing that both create high standards for their educational programs and reinforce privilege as a collective identity. This book illustrates the ways that affluent students construct their own privilege,not, fundamentally, as what they have, but, rather, as who they are.

Author : Jewelle Taylor Gibbs,Teiahsha Bankhead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313074288

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Preserving Privilege by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs,Teiahsha Bankhead Pdf

Gibbs and Bankhead examine the history and current situation in California as it struggles to deal with the ethnic and racial change that will make it the first American state to have a non-white majority in the first decade of the 21st century. From shock and denial, to bargaining to change the outcome, they analyze the impact in California and what this may mean for the rest of the country. They begin by tracing the major historical, social, economic and political events of the past 50 years that laid the foundation for the impetus of such ethnically and racially divisive initiatives as the efforts to strengthen anti-crime measures, remove illegal immigrants, limit affirmative action measures, and eliminate bilingual education. Each of these ballot propositions is examined, detailing the pro and con arguments of their advocates and opponents, their major financial contributors, campaign strategies, ethnic voting patterns, implications of implementation, and their impact on people of color. Gibbs and Bankhead then look at parallels from a national and international perspective. They conclude with a discussion of the values that should guide public policy debates in a multiethnic, multicultural society, and they propose specific policy alternatives to address the issues of crime prevention and control, illegal immigration, affirmative action, and bilingual education. A thoughtful analysis that will be of value to concerned citizens as well as policy makers, scholars, and students of contemporary American issues.

Author : Laurie M. Cassidy,Alexander Mikulich
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570757006

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Interrupting White Privilege by Laurie M. Cassidy,Alexander Mikulich Pdf

White Catholic theologians have remained relatively silent on the topic of racism since publication in 1979 of the U.S. bishops' statement against racism, Brothers and Sisters to Us. Contributors Jon Nilson, Mary Elizabeth Hobgood, Barbara Hilkert Andolsen, Charles Curran, Roger Haight, Margaret Guider, Margaret Pfeil, and editors Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich all address the issue of white privilege and how it is a significant factor in shaping the evil of racism in our country. Book jacket.

Author : Adam Howard,Brianne Wheeler,Aimee Polimeno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317687931

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Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts by Adam Howard,Brianne Wheeler,Aimee Polimeno Pdf

Recent efforts emphasize the roles that privilege and elite education play in shaping affluent youths’ identities. Despite various backgrounds, the common qualities shared among the eight adolescents showcased in this book lead them to form particular understandings of self, others, and the world around them that serve as means for them to negotiate their privilege. These self-understandings are crucial for them to feel more at ease with being privileged, foster a positive sense of self, and reduce the negative feelings associated with their advantages – thus managing expectations for future success. Offering an intimate and comprehensive view of affluent adolescents’ inner lives and understandings, Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts explores these qualities and provides an important alternative perspective on privilege and how privilege works. The case studies in this volume explore different settings and lived experiences of eight privileged adolescents who, influenced by various sources, actively construct and cultivate their own privilege. Their stories address a wide range of issues relevant to the study of adolescence and the various social class factors that mediate adolescents’ educational experiences and identities.

Author : Enid Campbell
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 1862874786

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Parliamentary Privilege by Enid Campbell Pdf

The publication of Parliamentary Privilege in Australia in 1966 established Enid Campbell as the country's leading scholar in the area. Now Professor Campbell has written a successor which, while drawing on parts of the earlier work, focusses on issues and problems which have arisen in recent years, particularly since the enactment of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987. Topics specifically examined in the book include - the scope of the central privilege of freedom of speech and debate in parliament; measures adopted by houses of parliaments to regulate exercise of that freedom; restrictions on the uses which may be made of evidence of what has been said and done in the course of parliamentary proceedings; immunities accorded to MPs in respect of various legal processes, such as ones which require them to appear before a court to give evidence; the powers of houses of parliaments to make inquiries and to delegate investigatory powers to committee of their members; the power of houses of parliaments to impose penalties of a criminal character and to discipline their members. This book, like its predecessor, will be the standard reference on the laws concerning the powers, privileges and immunities of Australian parliaments, their members and committees for the next generation.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Confidential communications
ISBN : PSU:000065527924

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Reporters' Privilege Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Edna Selan Epstein
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 1532 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590318048

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The Attorney-client Privilege and the Work-product Doctrine by Edna Selan Epstein Pdf

The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work-Product Doctrine has helped thousands of lawyers through this increasingly complex area. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the current law of the attorney-client and work-product immunities, the new edition includes many more case illustrations and contextual examples, as well as numerous practical tips and guidance. Practical, accurate, reliable and clear, this book is the ideal guide for a practicing litigator: intellectually rigorous, but without the theoretical and academic baggage that can make writing on this subject cumbersome and leaden.

Author : Frances E. Kendall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415874267

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Understanding White Privilege by Frances E. Kendall Pdf

Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life.