Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America: 48 (Critical America) - Hardcover

Wildman, Stephanie M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814792987 ISBN 13: 9780814792988

Publisher: New York University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Affirmative action remains a hotly contested issue on our political landscape, yet the institutionalized systems of privilege which uphold the status quo remain unchallenged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which benefit them. For example, many Americans rely on a social and sometimes even financial inheritance from previous generations. This inheritance, unlikely to be forthcoming if one's ancestors were slaves, privileges whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality.

In this important volume, scholars positioned differently with respect to white privilege examine how privilege of all forms manifests itself and how we can, and must, be aware of invisible privilege in our daily lives. Individual chapters focus on language, the workplace, the implications of comparing racism and sexism, race-based housing privilege, the dream of diversity and the cycle of exclusion, the rule of law and invisible systems of privilege, and the power of law to transform society.

About this title

About the Authors

Stephanie M. Wildman is Professor Emerita at Santa Clara Law and a member of The Writers Grotto.

Margalynne Armstrong is Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University.

Adrienne D. Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University serves as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Diversity and Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.

Trina Grillo (1948-1996) served as Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco.

Edition details

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814792987
• ISBN 13: 9780814792988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252