The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege
ISBN: 9780073404110 | 007340411X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 3/13/2008
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Written by four authors from different disciplinary backgrounds, this reader promotes a commitment to an intersectional approach to teaching race, class, gender and sexuality. Unlike most books of its kind, it highlights the duality of privilege and oppression and the effects that race, gender, and sexuality have on our lives. This reader includes poems, reflective literary prose, historical events and documents, images drawn from the media, contemporary statistics of inequalities, visual images, and tools that empower students to become agents... MORE
| The Matrix Reader:Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege | |
| Table of Contents Leslie Feinberg, Excerpt | |
| Afterword | |
| Constructing Identities and Examining Intersections • Poem: “I am not your Princess” Chrystos, in Amy Kesselman | |
| Constructing Identity | |
| Excerpts from Becoming a Visible Man | |
| Gender Relations | |
| The Invention of Heterose... MORE | |
| Excerpts from “Masculinity as Homophobia | |
| Historical Image: From Norman Kleeblatt (ed.), “The physiognomy of race in the medical anthropology of the late 19th century” | |
| Racial Formations | |
| Historical Advertisement: Kathy Peiss, “Black Skin Remover” | |
| Failing to See” | |
| Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves | |
| "Social Class Matters" | |
| Bringing Classism into the Race & Gender Picture | |
| The Social Construction of Disability” Examining the Intersections • Poem: “One” | |
| Sharon Hwang Colligan in Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out | |
| Patricia Hill Collins, “Toward a New Vision” | |
| What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar About Identity | |
| Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized? | |
| Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism | |
| You’re Not a Real Boy if You’re Disabled | |
| Choosing Up Sides | |
| Seeing More Than Black and White | |
| Understanding Oppression and Privilege • Poem: Joy Harjo, "I Give You Back" | |
| White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Throughout Work in Women’s Studies | |
| Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference | |
| Defining Racism: Can We Talk? | |
| Privilege: Expanding on Marilyn Frye’s ‘Oppression | |
| Excerpts from Racism without Racists | |
| La Guera | |
| White Privilege Shapes the U.S.Robert Jensen | |
| The Costs of American Privilege | |
| How We Got Here: The Historical Context • Poem: “I, too,” Langston Hughes in Voices & visions: the poet in America. Helen Vendler, (ed.), New York : Random House, 1987. The Big Picture: Understanding the Historical Context • Poem: Alice Walker, “Patriot,” | |
| Gregory Campbell, “Many Americas: The Intersection of Class, Race, and Ethnic Identity” • Postcard: Kenneth W. Goings, Depicting a little girl in a watermelon patch with a swollen stomach • Souvenir: Kenneth W. Goings, Mechanical cast-iron bank | |
| Disability Discrimination and the Evolution of Civil Rights in Democratic Societies | |
| A History of Women’s Bodies | |
| Thirteen Key | |
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