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Privilege & Oppression

Privilege & Oppression. Diversity Literacy Week 1 / Lecture 2. Prepared by Claire Kelly. Privilege / Normativity. Prepared by Claire Kelly.

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Privilege & Oppression

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  1. Privilege & Oppression Diversity Literacy Week 1 / Lecture 2 Prepared by Claire Kelly

  2. Privilege / Normativity Prepared by Claire Kelly • Insert: “Untitled” by ThembinkosiGoniwe. It depicts a black man and a white man, both with white plasters on their faces. The plaster appears very obvious that it was made for white skin. • http://www.artthrob.co.za/01nov/images/goniwe01a.jpg

  3. Privilege / Normativity Prepared by Claire Kelly • Insert: A picture normalizing and privileging maleness. The picture used for the class is an cartoon of stick figures, the male figure makes a mistake, the other figure says “Wow you suck at maths”, the female figure makes a mistake and the other figure says “Wow girls suck at maths.” • http://restructure.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/gender-difference-in-math-ability-variability-driven-by-social-inequality-study/

  4. Privilege / Normativity Prepared by Claire Kelly • Insert Picture of Osama Bin Laden • http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/ap_osama_bin_laden_2_ll_110502_wg.jpg • “Muslim extremist” OR “psychotic loner”? • Insert Picture of Anders Behring Breivik • http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01953/Anders_Behring_Bre_1953790b.jpg • “psychotic loner” OR “Christian extremist”?

  5. Privilege Prepared by Claire Kelly “When one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to” (McIntosh) Privilege is structural, you don’t do anything for it Social position versus subjective experience: The power of privilege is that it rarely experienced as such “Path of least resistance” > standing still on a moving train (Howard Zinn)

  6. Oppression Prepared by Claire Kelly Like privilege, oppression is structural “… oppression designates the disadvantage and injustice some people suffer not because a tyrannical power coerces them, but because of the everyday practices of a well intentioned society” (Young, p. 36) Family of concepts and conditions…

  7. The Five Faces of Oppression Prepared by Claire Kelly Exploitation:transfer of results of labour of one group to benefit another; enacts structural relation unequal distribution of resources Marginalization: expulsion from useful participation in social life; beyond distribution of resources “deprivation of institutionalised conditions for exercising capacities in a context of recognition and interaction” (p. 42) Powerlessness:“do not regularly participate in making decisions that affect the conditions of their lives and actions” (p. 43)

  8. The Five Faces of Oppression (ctnd.) Prepared by Claire Kelly Cultural imperialism: “to experience how the dominant meanings of a society render the particular perspective of one’s own group invisible as they stereotype one’s group and mark it as Other” (p. 44); dominant group’s perspectives are the norm; “double consciousness” Violence:to live with the fear of violence because you are a member of a group; including harassment; social context makes it possible

  9. Prepared by Claire Kelly “possible to compare oppressions without reducing them to a common essence or claiming that one is more fundamental than the other” (Young, p. 48)

  10. Two-Headed Monster Oppression Privilege Prepared by Claire Kelly Insert: Image of a two-headed monster, with one head representing privilege and the other oppression.

  11. The Octopus POWER sexism racism xenophobia classism homophobia ableism Prepared by Claire Kelly Insert: Image of an octopus with each of the isms represented by his tentacles, and his head labelled “power”.

  12. Extra References Prepared by Claire Kelly Zinn, H. (1995) You can't be neutral on a moving train: A personal history of our times. Boston: Beacon Press

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