Oppression amp Justice Fall 2013 Laura GuidryGrimes Peggy McIntosh Introductory Thoughts M ost Americans think that Hispanics are the most discriminated against social group poll here ID: 551340
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On Racial Privilege
Oppression & Justice (Fall 2013)Laura Guidry-Grimes
Peggy McIntoshSlide2
Introductory ThoughtsSlide3
M
ost Americans think that Hispanics are the most discriminated against social group (poll here)
Over 2/3 of Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians surveyed in NYC have experienced at least one form of discrimination or bias-related harassment since 9/11 (
report here
)
For the past 15 years, the percentage of racial discrimination charges brought to the EEOC has remained roughly the same (
data here)Controlling for severity of crime, blacks receive 10% longer sentences than whites through the federal system; young white men are 38% less likely than young black men to be sentenced to prison at all (info here and here)47.4% of hate crimes in 2011 were targeted because of the offender’s bias against a racial group, and 71.9% of these were due to a specifically anti-black bias (report here)
Some StatisticsSlide4
What Is
P
rivilege?
“an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious” (35)
“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks” (ibid.)
What do these metaphors amount to or mean?Slide5
Blinders of Privilege
Their experiences, goals, viewpoint as “morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal” (37)
Blinders perpetuate exclusionary norms
Make challenging the norms more difficult
Privileged class spared various penalties, fears, barriers, burdened awareness, feelings of not belonging
Privilege imbued in daily interactions, everyday choices and option setsSlide6
Taxonomy of Privilege
Advantages that should be shared by all in just society
Licenses to be ignorant and arrogant
Effects of being in numerical majority
Not being burdened by pervasive negative stereotyping
Can
confer dominance
morally harm privileged
and
oppressed
(in different ways)
Given that our society is riddled with systems of privilege (for whites and other social groups), how should we promote equal opportunity?Slide7
(Alleged) obliviousness in advertising…Slide8
Group Work
Think of 2 other examples of unearned racial privilege to add to McIntosh’s list.
Identify what is morally problematic about those examples of privilege.
Propose ways to counter those privileges or ways for individuals to take responsibility. Be specific!
Can you think of other examples of racial obliviousness in our popular culture?Slide9
Questions? Comments?