Privilege
"What’s Fair? Who Decides? Navigating the Ethics of Privilege" with Rev. Carl
- Thursdays, starting September 22, 2016 (8 sessions)
- 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. in Room 113/115
- Textbook: Privilege: A Reader, 4th Edition, edited by Michael Kimmel and Abby Ferber. New copies are expensive ($42), although it is cheaper on Kindle ($25.99). (Reading in advance strongly encouraged, but not required). Also, note that although cheaper used copies of earlier editions are available, approximately half the essays are new in the 4th edition.
- Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/1081312335285317
- Suggested Donation to UUCF: $5/session (“requested, not required”)
- Childcare available with 72 hours notice to education@frederickuu.org.
If possible, please read the essays for each date prior to class.
TUESDAY, October 25
- part four introduction: making new connections, moving forward
- 21. Carol Mukhopadhyay: Getting Rid of the Word “Caucasian”
- 22. M.E. Lee: Maybe I’m Not Class Mobile; Maybe I’m Class Queer
- 23. Abby Ferber: We Aren’t Just Color-Blind, We Are Oppression Blind!
(Reading pages 229 - 258 = 29 pages)
Thursday, November 3, 2016
- 24. Patricia Hill Collins: Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection
- 25. Mark R. Warren: Winning Hearts and Minds
- 26. Caitlin Deen Fair: An Open Letter to White “Allies” from a White Friend
(Reading pages 259 - 294 = 35 pages)
- Share closing reflections/insights from class.
Sunday, November 20, 2016
The focus on the Sunday service will be on privilege. Members of this class are invited to share insights from this class during the Spoken Meditation. Submissions should be emailed to Rev. Carl () no later than Tuesday, November 15. More information forthcoming on the word limit for each person, which will be determined based on the number of interested participants.
Previous Classes
Thursday, September 22, 2016
- Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Superordinate, by Michael S. Kimmel
- part one introduction: seeing – and refusing to see – privilege
- 1. Tal Fortgang: Checking My Privilege
- 2. Charles Clymer: This Response to That Princeton Freshman Should Be Required Reading for White Males
- 3. Daniel Gastfriend: Reflections on Privilege: An Open Letter to Tal Fortgang
(Reading pages ix - 27 = 32 pages)
Thursday, September 29, 2016
- 4. Peggy McIntosh: White Privilege and Male Privilege
- 5. Jessica Shea: The Invisible Crutch
- 6. Angélica S. Guitierrez and Miguel M. Unzueta: Are admissions decisions based on family ties fairer than those that consider race? Social dominance orientation and attitudes toward legacy vs. affirmative action policies
- 7. Juan Cole: Top Ten Differences between White Terrorists and Others
- 8. Bob Pease: Globalizing Privilege
(Reading pages 28 - 63 = 35 pages)
Thursday, October 6, 2016
- part two introduction: understanding privilege
- 9. Allan Johnson: Privilege, Power, Difference, and Us
- 10. Michael A. Messner: Becoming 100 Percent Straight
- 11. Sonny Nordmarken: Becoming Ever More Monstrous: Feeling Gender In-Betweenness
(Reading pages 67 - 114 = 47 pages)
Thursday, October 13, 2016
- 12. Ashley “Woody” Doane: White-Blindness: The Dominant Group Experience
- 13. Diana Kendall: Class: Still Alive and Reproducing in the United States
- 14. Paul Kivel: Everyday Impact of Christian Hegemony
- 15. Cara Liebowitz (That Crazy Crippled Chick): Just Because it’s Ableist Doesn’t Mean it’s Bad
(Reading pages 115 - 155 = 40 pages)
TUESDAY, October 18
- part three introduction: intersections: the complicated reality
- 16. Michael Kimmel and Bethany Coston: Seeing Privilege Where It Isn’t: Marginalized Masculinities and the Intersectionality of Privilege
- 17. Alan Bérubé: How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays
- 18. Kortney Ziegler: Peculiarity of Black Trans Male Privilege
- 19. Seth Goren: Gay and Jewish
- 20. John Tehranian: The Easterner as the Other
(Reading pages 159 - 208 = 67 pages)
(The short link to this page is frederickuu.org/privilege.)