"From one of the world’s leading voices on white privilege and anti-racism work comes this collection of essays on complexities of privilege and power. Each of the four parts illustrates Peggy McIntosh’s practice of combining personal and systemic understandings to focus on power in unusual ways. Part I includes McIntosh’s classic and influential essays on privilege, or systems of unearned advantage that correspond to systems of oppressi ..."
"This book is the culmination of forty years of McIntosh's intellectual and organizational work. ars of McIntosh's intellectual and organizational work."
"Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all. While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years--including the election of Barack Obama as President o ..."
"The possessive investment in whiteness: How white people profit from identity
politics. Philadelphia: Temple ... In B. Bergo & T. Nicholls (Eds.), I don't see color
personal and critical perspectives on white privilege (pp. 13–24). University Park
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"SEED is especially indebted to the wisdom of Reverend Linda Powell Pruitt, and
to Sister Gervaise Valpey, an angel of ... wonderful San Domenico School. ... I do
not cry often, but in a given New SEED Leaders week in the summer, I have
sometimes felt my eyes watering all day long. ... and character it takes for a
teacher to lead a year-long seminar for their colleagues and to make it good for
everyone."
"Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all. While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years_including the election of Barack Obama as President of ..."
Teaching Stories(1st Edition) by Judy Logan, PeggyMcintosh Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1999 by Kodansha Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-56836-276-2, ISBN: 1-56836-276-5
"When nearly everyone else is telling kids no-"No, do it this way....No, I don't want to hear what you think....No, sit down and pay attention"-Judy Logan says yes, to a child's passions, interests, and hopes. The results have been news-making; her students blossom academically, winning essay contests, prizes, and entrance to the country's best colleges. Armed with a strong sense of who they are and what they think, her students also blo ..."
"Kenneth H. Williams, Associate Editor Peggy L. Dillard, Editorial Associate The autumn of 1863 was a trying time for Jefferson Davis. Even as he expressed unwavering confidence about the eventual success of the Confederate movement, he had to realize that mounting economic problems, low morale, and rotating army leadership were threatening the welfare of the new nation. Less than a year after the October 1863 Confederate victory at Chic ..."