Authors: Allan G. Johnson
ISBN-13: 9780072874891, ISBN-10: 0072874899
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: 2nd Edition
This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This extraordinarily successful book has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege.
Allan Johnson has worked on issues of social inequality since receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1972. He has more than thirty years of teaching experience and is a frequent speaker on college and university campuses. Johnson has earned a reputation for writing that is exceptionally clear and explanations of complex ideas that are accessible to a broad audience.
Chapter 1: Rodney King's Question
We're In TroubleChapter 2: Privilege, Oppression and DifferenceDifference Is Not the Problem Mapping Difference: Who Are We?The Social Construction of DifferenceWhat Is Privilege?Two Types of PrivelegePrivilege as ParadoxOppression: The Flip Side of PrivilegeChapter 3: Capitalism, Class, and The Matrix of DominationHow Capitalism Works Capitalism and ClassCapitalism, Difference, and Privilege: Race and GenderThe Matrix of Domination and the Paradox of Being Privileged and Unprivileged at the Same TimeChapter 4: Making Privilege HappenAvoidance, Exclusion, Rejection, and WorseTrouble for Whom?And That’s Not AllWe Can’t Heal Until the Wounding StopsChapter 5: The Trouble with the TroubleChapter 6: What It All Has to Do with UsIndividualism: Or, the Myth that Everything Is Somebody’s FaultIndividuals, Systems, and Paths of Least ResistanceWhat It Means to Be Involved in Privilege and OppressionChapter 7: How Systems of Privilege WorkDominance Identified with PrivilegePrivilege at the CenterThe Isms The Isms and UsChapter 8: Getting Off the Hook: Denial and ResistanceDeny and MinimizeBlame the Victim Call It Something ElseIt’s Better This WayIt Doesn’t Count If You Don’t Mean ItI’m One of the Good Ones Sick and Tired Getting Off the Hook by Getting OnChapter 9: What Can We Do?Myth#1: “It’s Always Been This Way, and It Always Will Be” Myth #2: Gandhi’s Paradox and The Myth of No EffectStubborn Ounces: What Can We Do?