PHIL 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Utopia, Cognitive Bias, Civil Rights Act Of 1964
Document Summary
Reading: white privilege and male privilege: a personal account of coming to see. Correspondences through work in women"s studies by peggy mcintosh. Equality is treating everyone the same while equity is taking everyone"s (dis)advantages into account so no one is over- or underprivileged. ) Handedness (most items are made for the right-handed) Definitions oppression systematic, harmful restrictions on individuals as members of a social group (frye); double-blinds privilege unearned benefits systematically distributed to members of a social group (bailey) Knapsack metaphor (having privilege is like being in the woods with a knapsack that has a map, compass, food, water, gps, mosquito spay, sunblock, etc. Not having privilege is like being in the same situation, but the knapsack only has rocks and other things to weigh you down. ) Intersectionality (how the multiple identities everyone has affect how they move through the world. For example, a black woman may have gender privilege, but not race or orientation privilege. )
