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Author Suyemoto, Karen L

Title Unraveling Assumptions A Primer for Understanding Oppression and Privilege
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (245 p.)
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: What This Book Is about -- 1. Preparing for Learning about Oppression and Privilege -- Why Is Talking (and Learning) about Diversity So Hard? -- Early Lessons That Some Topics Are Taboo -- Limited Educational Preparation -- Cultural Belief in Meritocracy -- Invisible Influence of Social Hierarchies -- Unraveling Assumptions through Increasing Understanding and Awareness
What Might Come Up for You while Reading This Book -- Practices That Enhance Learning -- Curiosity -- Intellectual Humility -- Self-compassion -- Mindfulness -- Where We Are Coming from -- Where Do You Go from Here? -- SECTION ONE: Foundations: Social Construction, Power, Privilege, and Oppression -- 2. Understanding Social Construction and Culture as Foundations of Meaning Making -- Defining Culture and Social Construct -- Some Possible Responses to the Material in This Chapter -- Culture as a Foundation of Meaning -- Culture and Social Constructs: Why Diversity Statuses Matter
Understanding Social Categories Related to Oppression and Privilege -- Differentiating Influences of Social Categories and Status from Personal Identity -- Common Factors among Categories Related to Oppression and Privilege -- Resources for Learning More about Culture and History -- 3. Understanding Power, Privilege, and Oppression -- Defining Power, Privilege, and Oppression -- Some Possible Responses to the Material in This Chapter -- Meanings of Power and Privilege -- Understanding Power -- Understanding Privilege -- Meanings of Prejudice and Oppression
Understanding Prejudice and Stereotyping -- Understanding Oppression -- Expanding and Complicating Meanings of Oppression and Privilege -- Levels of Oppression and Privilege -- Unconscious Bias: Examples of Color-blind Racial Ideology and Unconscious Racism -- Relative, Ascribed, Contextual, and Intersectional Privilege and Oppression -- Effects of Hierarchies of Oppression and Privilege -- Exploring Effects of Oppression through the Example of Racism -- Beyond Good Intentions -- Resources for Learning More about Power, Privilege, and Oppression
SECTION TWO: Understanding Hierarchies of Oppression and Privilege: Race, Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Sexuality, Disability, and Social Class -- 4. Understanding Race and Racism -- Defining Race and Racism -- Some Possible Responses to the Material in This Chapter -- Exploring Meanings of Race -- Race as Social Construct -- Racial Identity -- Exploring Racism -- Resources for Learning More about Race, Racism, and Racial Identity -- 5. Understanding Ethnicity and Ethnocentrism -- Defining Ethnicity and Ethnocentrism -- Some Possible Responses to the Material in This Chapter
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Exploring Meanings of Ethnicity
Subject Privilege (Social psychology)
Power (Social sciences)
Oppression (Psychology)
Oppression (Psychology)
Power (Social sciences)
Privilege (Social psychology)
Form Electronic book
Author Donovan, Roxanne A
Kim, Grace S
ISBN 9780429607523
0429607520