Beyond Race, Gender, and Class: Understanding the Roots of Privilege

Using the concept of privilege in race, gender, and class, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity talk” to discuss what would be needed to transform our society and promote justice and sustainability. Any serious effort toward those goals must confront the structures of power in the contemporary United States that produce such profound inequality. Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the Universityof Texas at Austin and author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue (City Lights, 2013) and The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005).
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