PRIVILEGE, POWER, AND DIFFERENCE.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Allan G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elite (Social sciences)--United States.

Elite (Social sciences).

United States.

Power (Social sciences)--United States.

Power (Social sciences).

Social conflict--United States.

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

v, 189 p ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third EDITION.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : MCGRAW-HILL, 2017.

Contents:

Chapter 1 We're in Trouble p. 1

The Trouble We're In p. 5

Chapter 2 Privilege, Oppression, and Difference p. 12

Difference Is Not the Problem p. 12

Mapping Difference: Who Are We? p. 13

The Social Construction of Difference p. 17

What Is Privilege? p. 20

Two Types of Privilege p. 21

Privilege as Paradox p. 23

Oppression: The Flip Side of Privilege p. 32

Chapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination p. 35

How Capitalism Works p. 36

Capitalism and Class p. 39

Capitalism, Difference, and Privilege: Race and Gender p. 40

The Matrix of Domination and the Paradox of Being Privileged and Oppressed At the Same Time p. 44

Chapter 4 Making Privilege and Oppression Happen p. 47

Avoidance, Exclusion, Rejection, and Worse p. 49

A Problem for Whom? p. 53

And That's Not All p. 56

We Cannot Heal Until the Wounding Stops p. 59

Chapter 5 The Trouble with the Trouble p. 60

Chapter 6 What It Has to Do with Us p. 66

Individualism: Or, the Myth That Everything Bad Is Somebody's Fault p. 66

Individuals, Systems, and Paths of Least Resistance p. 68

What It Means to Be Involved in Privilege and Oppression p. 72

Chapter 7 How Systems of Privilege Work p. 76

Dominance and Control p. 76

Identified with Privilege p. 80

The Center of Attention p. 84

The Isms p. 88

The Isms and Us p. 90

Chapter 8 Getting Off the Hook: Denial and Resistance p. 92

Deny and Minimize p. 92

Blame the Victim p. 94

Call It Something Else p. 95

It's Better This Way p. 95

It Doesn't Count If You Don't Mean It p. 96

I'm One of the Good Ones p. 99

Not My Job p. 102

Sick and Tired p. 103

Getting Off the Hook by Getting On p. 105

Chapter 9 What Can We Do? p. 107

The Myth That It's Always Been This Way and Always Will p. 108

Gandhi's Paradox and The Myth of No Effect p. 110

Stubborn Ounces: What Can We Do? p. 114.

ISBN:

0073404225

9780073404226

OCLC:

960834114