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White Privilege

White PrivilegeAuthor: Paula S. Rothenberg
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6

ISBN: 1429206608
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8034
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Product Description
Studies of racism often focus on its devastating effects on the victims of prejudice. But no discussion of race is complete without exploring the other side—the ways in which some people or groups actually benefit, deliberately or inadvertently, from racial bias. This is the subject of Paula Rothenberg's groundbreaking anthology, White Privilege.
 
The new edition of White Privilege once again challenges readers to explore ideas for using the power and the concept of white privilege to help combat racism in their own lives, and includes key essays and articles by Peggy McIntosh, Richard Dyer, bell hooks, Robert Jensen, Allan G. Johnson, and others.  Three additional essays add new levels of complexity to our understanding of the paradoxical nature of white privilege and the politics and economics that lie behind the social construction of whiteness, making this edition an even better choice for educators.
 
Brief, inexpensive, and easily integrated with other texts, this interdisciplinary collection of commonsense, non-rhetorical readings lets educators incorporate discussions of whiteness and white privilege into a variety of disciplines, including sociology, English composition, psychology, social work, women’s studies, political science, and American studies.



Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars Eye Opening Read   February 21, 2009
Heather Larson (Iowa)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

This book was an uncomfortable read because I was unaware of the privileges white people have and take for granted. The book provided me with a new view of race and prejudice. White Privilege describes how other races feel and forces you to develop empathy with that race or gender. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially those that have not or rarely experienced other cultures or races. Great read, well written and moves fast.


5 out of 5 stars Great! Awesome!   December 8, 2008
Jennifer Sykes
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book is AWESOME! It helps to explain a lot of the racial problems we have in this country. It also can help ethnic minorities (like me) find the words to discribe our experiences in America!!!!


5 out of 5 stars Critical Information for Concerned Americans   August 30, 2008
Jonna B
4 out of 8 found this review helpful

The book is hard hitting and timely. Well written chapters speak to the America we live in. The discussions are long overdue!!


1 out of 5 stars Don't Be Hating...Yourself   April 16, 2010
EAJ (Troy, MI)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful

Having grown up white in america and taught to be shameful of my race, my history, in the public schools, as well as being instructed in the media and life in general that I am always "wrong" and i have to prove my innocence at any time, this book was a sad screwed up look at white privilege. Perhaps people of the authors generation benefited, i have only been made to suffer for it. I have extracted no divinable benefit. Sure you can say my parents, a cop & a secretary, got an education and I too got an education while others did not. However at 45 I daily imagine the cost of one inadvertant slip of the tongue.
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Someday the meritocracy will rise and those who fall behind will be pointed to their own failures and victimhood will be the new scarlet letter. Someday.
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This book of course is an apology to the non whites and reinforces the victimhood and places false guilt so the cycle goes on and someday is not here yet.




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