Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America - Rilegato

Wildman, Stephanie M.

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ISBN 10: 0814792987 ISBN 13: 9780814792988

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

Affirmative action remains a hotly contested issue on our political landscape, yet the institutionalized systems of privilege which uphold the status quo remain unchallenged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them. For example, many Americans rely on a social and sometimes even financial inheritance from previous generations. This inheritance, unlikely to be forthcoming if one's ancestors were slaves, privileges whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality.

In this important volume, scholars positioned differently with respect to white privilege examine how privilege of all forms manifests itself and how we can, and must, be aware of invisible privilege in our daily lives. Individual chapters focus on language, the workplace, the implications of comparing racism and sexism, race-based housing privilege, the dream of diversity and the cycle of exclusion, the rule of law and invisible systems of privilege, and the power of law to transform society.

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L'autore

Stephanie Wildman is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, where she also directs the Center for Social Justice and Public Service.

Product Description

Book by Wildman Stephanie M

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0814792987
• ISBN 13: 9780814792988
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile