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Privilege and Prejudice: Twenty Years with the Invisible Knapsack
Editor: Karen Weekes
Date Of Publication: Aug 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1009-8
Isbn: 1-4438-1009-6
“Privilege and Prejudice: Twenty Years with the Invisible Knapsack” explores various areas of contemporary American culture where sexism and racism still leave an indelible print. In 1988, Peggy McIntosh published her groundbreaking essay “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” an examination of white privilege and its role in perpetuating racism. Twenty years later, these seven essays reveal problems that persist even in systems that are ostensibly trying to address problems of inequality. Beginning with a foreword by McIntosh on our society’s resistance to confronting privilege, this text then delves into a variety of fields. In the first section, on higher education, Simona Hill, Lucien Winegar, Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Ronald Cervero contribute two essays examining racism in the academy, while Donna Axel explores the stigma in law school alternative application processes. The next section interrogates privilege and its effects on females’ choices, with Kyla Bender-Baird questioning global contraception policies and Mary Carney giving a historical overview to contextualize persistent gender inequities in computer technology. Media studies and stereotypes are considered in the final section, in which Janice Stapley analyzes children’s birthday cards for gender bias and Ellen Miller critiques male dance films. This text would be useful for social science and humanities scholars of all types with its explorations of the continuing ramifications of race, gender, class, and their intersections.
Karen Weekes is Division Head of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, Abington College. Her chief area of study is contemporary American women’s writing, with published criticism on Lorrie Moore, Audre Lorde, Susan Minot, and Maxine Hong Kingston. She is the editor of Women Know Everything! (Quirk, 2007).
"A valuable contribution to the work on privilege and inequality that continues to frame our understanding of life in the 21st Century."
—Paula Rothenberg, Senior Fellow, Murphy Institute, City University of New York "Celebrating two decades of Peggy McIntosh's influential work on invisible privilege, editor Karen Weekes has compiled a collection of fascinating articles that draw inspiration from McIntosh's work...this book is a strong addition to any social justice library." Diversity and Democracy, Volume 13, No. 2, 2010
Price Uk Gbp: 34.99
Price Us Usd: 52.99
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