Privilege Through the Looking-Glass / edited by Patricia Leavy.

• Superior document: Personal/Public Scholarship
• HerausgeberIn: Leavy, Patricia.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: Personal/Public Scholarship
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (CLXXXVIII, 16 p.)

Privilege Through the Looking-Glass is a collection of original essays that explore privilege and status characteristics in daily life. This collection seeks to make visible that which is often invisible. It seeks to sensitize us to things we have been taught not to see. Privilege, power, oppression, and domination operate in complex and insidious ways, impacting groups and individuals. And yet, these forces that affect our lives so deeply seem to at once operate in plain sight and lurk in the shadows, making them difficult to discern. Like water to a fish, environments are nearly impossible to perceive when we are immersed in them. This book attempts to expose our environments. With engaging and powerful writing, the contributors share their personal stories as a means of connecting the personal and the public. This volume applies an intersectional perspective to explore how race, class, gender, sexuality, education, and ableness converge, creating the basis for privilege and oppression. Privilege Through the Looking-Glass encourages readers to engage in self and social reflection, and can be used in a range of courses in sociology, social work, communication, education, gender studies, and African American studies. Each chapter includes discussion questions and/or activities for further engagement. “Privilege Through the Looking-Glass offers a varied and profound examination of how privilege functions as the underside of power. This is a powerful and important book about inequality, identity, agency, and the challenge of addressing difference as part of a democratic ethos in a time of growing authoritarianism all over the world. Every educator should read this book.” – Henry A. Giroux, Professor, McMaster University “A courageous volume that blends theory, personal experiences, and reflections on contemporary debates over identity. This is a book that is more about the politics of identity than identity politics. It is a powerful testament to the urgency of understanding privilege and deserves to be read widely.” – Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor, Chapman University “Privilege Through the Looking-Glass unmasks the casual ‘isms’ that suppress the best aspects of our humanity, by assembling a powerful and honest collection of parables. Poignant and unflinching, the contributors eschew to the cloak of objectivism to give the hard truth about privilege as a social ill, and the collective responsibility of the conscious community to confront all forms of oppression… this book has lessons for anyone with the spirit to explore better ways to be themselves and relate to others.” – Ivory A. Toldson, Professor, Howard University, and Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Negro Education Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an award-winning independent sociologist and best-selling author.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Patricia Leavy -- Introduction to Privilege Through the Looking-Glass / Patricia Leavy -- Unpacking (Un)Privilege or Flesh Tones, Red Bones, and Sepia Shades of Brown / Robin M. Boylorn -- Men Hug Me at Work / Adrienne Trier-Bieniek -- The Voice of White Male Power and Privilege / Christopher N. Poulos -- I Am My Grandmother’s Child / Venus E. Evans-Winters -- Angryblackscholar: Unpacking White Privilege as a Black Female Unapologetically Claiming and Asserting My Right to Live My Dreams / Donna Y Ford -- My Responsibility to Change / Liza Talusan -- Black Here, Oburni There / Amy L. Masko -- Buying a Better World? The Intersections of Consumerism, Class, and Privilege in Global Women’s Rights Activism / Mayme Lefurgey -- Reflections on Rural / Sarrah J. Grubb -- Being a (Gay) Duck in a Family of (Heterosexual) Swans / Tony E. Adams -- Swirling Shades of Right and Wrong / Tammy Bird -- Male or Female? / Em Rademaker -- Transcending Gender Binarization / Shalen Lowell -- Titanium Tits / Kate Birdsall -- On Not Being a Victoria’s Secret Model / Lisa Barry -- The Ephemeral Passport / Jean Kilbourne -- It’s a Small World / Lisa Phillips -- The Pen Stops / Nancy La Monica -- Responsive Stories / miroslav pavle manovski -- Death by a Thousand Cuts / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- About the Contributors / Patricia Leavy.