What is it about?
This article focuses on the work of those with privilege in the practice of inclusion.
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Why is it important?
Diversity efforts often exclude those with privilege because it is assumed they don't have difficulty in being included. But those with privilege also have a race, gender, sexual preference, religion, and/or able-bodiedness. When that privilege is aware and executed compassionately and with a focus on social justice, powerful change can happen.
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This page is a summary of: The role of societal privilege in the definitions and practices of inclusion, Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal, March 2014, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/edi-12-2013-0115.
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White Privilege Conference
WPC is a conference that examines challenging concepts of privilege and oppression and offers solutions and team building strategies to work toward a more equitable world.It is not a conference designed to attack, degrade or beat up on white folks or to rally white supremacist groups. WPC is a conference designed to examine issues of privilege beyond skin color. WPC is open to everyone and invites diverse perspectives to provide a comprehensive look at issues of
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion conference
The EDI Conference welcomes a wide range of topics about the complex relationship between equality, diversity and inclusion from different theoretical, empirical and methodological angles as well as across various trans/inter/national and disciplinary contexts. We want to draw particular attention to the concept of inclusion which often serves as an implicit anchor of equality and diversity policies but is rarely explicitly addressed in the context of its specific meaning.
Privilege: A Reader
Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male. In an era when “diversity” is too often shorthand for “of color” and/or “female,” the essays in this collection explore the multifaceted nature of social location and consider how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability and religion interact to create nuanced layers of privilege and oppression.
Privilege, Power, and Difference
This 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, theory is linked with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it.
Peggy McIntosh on facing her privilege
Peggy McIntosh wrote the classic "White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack" and this video is a short summary of her reflections.
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