contents
Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Superordinate, by Michael S. Kimmel
part one: 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
4 Peggy McIntosh: White Privilege and Male Privilege
5 Jessica Shea: The Invisible Crutch
6 Angélica S. Gutiérrez 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
Discussion Questions and Activities, by Abby L. Ferber
part two: 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
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: The Everyday Impact of Christian Hegemony
15 Cara Liebowitz: Just Because It’s Ableist Doesn’t Mean It’s Bad
Discussion Questions and Activities, by Abby L. Ferber
part three: intersections: the complicated reality
16 Michael S. Kimmel and Bethany M. Coston: Seeing Privilege Where It Isn’t: Marginalized Masculinities and the Intersectionality of Privilege
17 Allan Bérubé: How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays
18 Kortney Ziegler: The Peculiarity of Black Trans Male Privilege
19 Seth Goren: Gay and Jewish: The “Advantages” of Intersectionality
20 John Tehranian: The Middle Easterner as the Other: The Slippery Slope from Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Alien, Enemy Alien to Enemy Race
Discussion Questions and Activities, by Abby L. Ferber
part four: making new connections, moving forward
21 Carol C. Mukhopadhyay: Getting Rid of the Word “Caucasian”
22 M. E. Lee: “Maybe I’m Not Class Mobile; Maybe I’m Class Queer”: Poor Kids in College, and Survival Under Hierarchy
23 Abby L. Ferber: We Aren’t Just Color-blind, We Are Oppression-blind!
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