NEW240Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Penal Labour, Nordstrom, Poster Children
Document Summary
Privilege is an advantage, or set of advantages, granted to the dominant group. Carbado describes privilege as coming in two forms: A series of disadvantages that the dominant group do not experience. According to carbado, privilege is maintained through unquestionably accepting the racial, gender, and heterosexual privileges one has. Taking identity privileges for granted helps to legitimize problematic assumptions about identity and entitlement. Makes it difficult to challenge starting points of controversial conversations about equality. Discrimination is perpetuated when a privileged individual acts without acknowledging the effects of their privilege, thus harming the disadvantaged. E. g. a white person unquestionably supporting the police, even though this organization is used to oppress racialized and othered folks. Identities are reflective and constitutive of systems of oppression. E. g. racism requires white privilege, sexism requires male privilege. This creates an obligation on the part of those of us with privileged identities to expose and challenge them. Relevant to equity because it perpetuates hegemonic structures.
