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Privilege in America : a reference handbook
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McFaden, Kelly L., author.
- Hardee, Sheri C., author.
- Series:
- Contemporary world issues.
- Contemporary world issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privilege (Social psychology)--United States.
- Privilege (Social psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic 2025.
- Summary:
- Explains and examines privilege in its many forms, including race, gender, class, and other socioeconomic categories, as well as its impact on American society.
- Contents:
- 1. Background and History
- Sex and Gender
- Queerness and Sexual Identity
- Socioeconomic Status
- (dis)Ability
- Language
- Religion
- Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
- 2. Problems, Controversies, and Solutions
- Roe v. Wade/Dobbs
- Anti-trans legislative agendas
- "Don't Say Gay" bill in Florida
- Obergfell v. Hodges
- Immigrants and modern farm practices
- Healthcare and bankruptcy
- Ableism and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Mental health and police violence
- #cripthevote
- Gender neutral language
- The "pronoun" controversy
- Islamophobia in the wake of 9/11 and today
- Women in the clergy?
- Nikole Hannah-Jones/1619 Project
- BLM and the Summer of Racial Reckoning
- Anti-Asian violence during the COVID-19 pandemic
- AP African Studies and the push for patriotic education
- 3. Perspectives
- Upholding Privilege in U.S. Education Systems Elizabeth Davis
- How White Parents can Resist White Supremacy at School Kerry Kretchmar and Jennifer L McCarthy Foubert
- Privilege for All: Arguments from a So-called Privileged White Guy David Forbes
- Hear Me Out... What Privilege Has "meeka" All Really Given Us Thus So Far? Syra Yang
- Self-Identity and Oppressive Education: A Chinese Female International Student's Perspective Jialu Fan
- Complicating the Majority-Minority Paradigm: Race, Class, and Intersectionality in the U.S. Christopher Hu
- Chapter 4: Profiles
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg
- Matthew Sheppard
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Autism Speaks
- Language and Linguistic Origin
- Kinney Kimmon Lau
- American Civil Liberties Union-ACLU
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-NAACP
- 5. Data and Documents
- Bill of Rights
- Selected Constitutional Amendments
- Declaration of Sentiments
- "Ain't I a Woman?" Sojourner Truth
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Title IX
- Lau v. Nichols (1974)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
- Chapter 6: Resources
- a.Sensoy & DiAngelo (2017) Is everyone really equal?: An introduction to key concepts in social justice education
- b.Kendi (2019) How to be anti-racist
- c.Gay (2014) Bad Feminist
- d.hooks (2014) Feminism is for everybody
- e.Crenshaw (1991) on intersectionality https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
- f.Wong (2020) Disability visibility
- g.Brown (2019) The Pretty One
- h.Kobabe (2020) Gender queer: A memoir
- i.Bronski (2019) A queer history of the United States
- j.Dunbar-Ortiz (2015) An indigenous peoples' history of the United States
- k.Adams, et al (2018) Reading for diversity and social justice
- Chapter 7: Chronology (1619-2023)
- Glossary.
- ISBN:
- 9798765116685
- 1-4408-8115-4
- 9798765116678
- OCLC:
- 1520507240
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