Otis College LibGuides: Teaching/Learning Center: APPLYING DIVERSITY, EQUITY + INCLUSION

White Privilege

White privilege is a concept that was developed and discussed throughout the 20th century. This video focuses on the academic article written by Peggy McIntosh in 1988 White and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies and her specific except taken from this article (Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack).

What is Anti-Oppression?

Anti-Oppression is the strategies, theories, actions and practices that actively challenge systems of oppression on an ongoing basis in one's daily life and in social justice/change work...

(Source: https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression)

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neautral."

- Paulo Freire

Anti-Oppression Resources

"No One Taught Me the Steps": Latinos' Experiences Applying to Graduate School Based on in-depth qualitative interviews, this study examined Latinos' graduate school choice process
Addressing Stereotype Threat This review integrates criticisms and evidence into one accessible source for practitioners and provides recommendations for implementing effective, low-cost interventions in the workplace
Anti-Oppression LibGuide Provides general information to learn about anti-oppression
Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology
Coloring the Field: Gender, "Race," and the Politics of Fieldwork A critical theory of the politics of work among people marginalized by racism and sexism
Culture as Disability
The Deadly Truth About a World Built For Men
Failure is Not an Option for Black Women Current debate on whether Black women experience more negative leader perceptions than do leaders with single-subordinate identities (i.e., Black men and White women)
How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment This article explores how job prospects for African-Americans have long been significantly worse than for the country as a whole
The Impact of Power on Stereotyping This article presents a theory of the mutually reinforcing interaction between power and stereotyping, mediated by attention
Microaggressions: More than just Race Understanding microaggressions and the groups they affect
Microaggressions: Strong Claims, Inadequate Evidence
Microaggressions and "Evidence": Empirical or Experiential Reality?
Oppression 101 A video on understanding oppression
Oppression and Privilege: Two Sides of the Same Coin Understanding oppression and privilege as two sides of systems of inequality
Racial Microaggressions and the Asian American Experience Examine strong indications that the types of subtle racism directed at Asian Americans may be qualitatively and quantitatively different from other marginalized groups
Racism Without Racists In this book, Bonilla-Silva continues to challenge color-blind thinking
Scientific Objectivity and the Concept of "The Other" The history of biological deter- minism is used to demonstrate that all oppressed groups have been used interchangeably and equated with each other, as well as with nature
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work This article discusses examples of work tasks and interaction in five elemen- tary schools in contrasting social class communities
Social Constructionism Social constructionist perspective is concerned with the meaning created through defining and categorizing groups of people, experience, and reality in cultural contexts.
White Fragility Explore the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challeneged
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Examples of the privilege white people experience in everyday life
Why Elite Students Get Elite Jobs Challenge our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer
Women Need One More Degree Than Men to Earn the Same Average Salary