Privilege Goes Viral
The blogosphere is positively abuzz with talk of class privilege. In early November, Jeanne, on her Social Class and Quakers blog, posted a version of a staff development exercise on class privilege...
View ArticleThere’s Bold, and Then There’s Bold
Speaking of that “privilege meme” that’s still buzzing around out there after oh so many days (even a blogger from Atlantic Monthly chimed in today, critiquing the exercise from her perspective as the...
View ArticleMore Blogging about Privilege
There’s been a refreshingly multi-faceted and thoughtful conversation about the privilege meme, schooling, and class going on over at this Live Journal blog (and I say this not only because they’ve...
View ArticleDiscourse on Class Privilege, Growing Ever More Interesting
A few days ago, I lamented the absence of more diverse voices among the gigabites of text generated by the Privilege Meme. I stand humbly corrected by the The Paper Chase and My Private Casbah...
View ArticleClass, Race, and Privilege
That Privilege Meme simply will not die, moving now among a number of blogs written by people of color, and generating infinitely more complicated discussion about class, gender, and race than were...
View ArticleMiddle Class Privilege
The organization Class Action offers terrific resources on class and classism, and in their recent newsletter Building Bridges, they write of the important discourse sparked by Peggy McIntosh’s piece,...
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