WGST 1808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Patricia Hill Collins, White Privilege, Wgst

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Aalya Ahmad

Document Summary

Typically fail to see how our thoughts & actions uphold someone else"s subordination. White feminists point out this oppression as women but fail to recognize their white privilege. Each group identifies the type of oppression w/ which it feels most comfortable as being fundamental & classifies all other types as being of lesser importance. Few pure victims or oppressors each one of us derives varying degrees of penalties & privilege. 2 elements to recognize our part in oppression: new visions of what oppression is. New categories of analysis inclusive of race, class, & gender. Examine differences w/in fundamental relationship of domination & subordination: change our daily behavior. Reconceptualizing race, class, & gender as categories of analysis. Current discourse relies on additive analyses of oppression based on 2 key premises: depend on either/or, dichotomous thinking, dichotomous differences must be ranked attempting to quantify oppression.