Title Privilege, power, and difference / Allan G. Johnson

Edition second edition Published Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, 2006

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W'PONDS	305.50973 Joh/Ppa 2006		AVAILABLE

Description xii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Chapter 1: Rodney King's Question -- We're In Trouble -- Chapter 2: Privilege, Oppression and Difference -- Difference Is Not the Problem -- Mapping Difference: Who Are We? -- The Social Construction of Difference -- What Is Privilege? -- Two Types of Privelege -- Privilege as Paradox -- Oppression: The Flip Side of Privilege -- Chapter 3: Capitalism, Class, and The Matrix of Domination -- How Capitalism Works -- Capitalism and Class -- Capitalism, Difference, and Privilege: Race and Gender -- The Matrix of Domination and the Paradox of Being Privileged and Unprivileged at the Same Time -- Chapter 4: Making Privilege Happen -- Avoidance, Exclusion, Rejection, and Worse -- Trouble for Whom? -- And That?s Not All -- We Can?t Heal Until the Wounding Stops -- Chapter 5: The Trouble with the Trouble -- Chapter 6: What It All Has to Do with Us -- Individualism: Or, the Myth that Everything Is Somebody?s Fault -- Individuals, Systems, and Paths of Least Resistance -- What It Means to Be Involved in Privilege and Oppression -- Chapter 7: How Systems of Privilege Work -- Dominance -- Identified with Privilege -- Privilege at the Center -- The Isms -- The Isms and Us -- Chapter 8: Getting Off the Hook: Denial and Resistance -- Deny and Minimize -- Blame the Victim -- Call It Something Else -- It?s Better This Way -- It Doesn?t Count If You Don?t Mean It -- I?m One of the Good Ones -- Sick and Tired -- Getting Off the Hook by Getting On -- Chapter 9: What Can We Do? -- Myth#1: ?It?s Always Been This Way, and It Always Will Be? -- Myth #2: Gandhi?s Paradox and The Myth of No Effect -- Stubborn Ounces: What Can We Do? -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Resources -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index Subject Elite (Social sciences) -- United States. Power (Social sciences) -- United States. Social conflict -- United States. LC no. 2004064987 ISBN 0072874899 (paperback)

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