White Privilege 101

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White Privilege 101
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Stories are the secret reservoir of values
change the stories individuals and nations live
byand you change the individuals and nations.-
Ben Okri
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PRIVILEGE
Class
Gender
Race
Able-bodied
Religion
Sexual Orientation
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Male Privilege
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Heterosexual Privilege
Sources of Law

• 1,049

Of these, 179 (17) refer to tax laws
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4 Chronological Stages of Media Representation
Non-recognition
Ridicule
Regulation
Respect
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Christian Privilege
If the world was 100 people, how would the
demographics by religion map out?

• Jewish
• Buddhist
• Muslim
• Hindu

• Christian
• Non-Religious (Atheist or Agnostic)
• Followers of Indigenous Religions
• Chinese Traditional

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Christian Privilege
33 Christians21 Muslims16 Non-religious
(atheist, agnostic, secular) 14 Hindus6
Buddhists 6 Followers of Indigenous Religions 6
Chinese Traditional Jews (number is below 1
person)
Total 102 due to statistical rounding errors
Source - http//www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adh
erents.html
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Class Privilege
Is it possible to work very hard in America and
achieve financial success?
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Class Privilege
Is it possible to NOT work very hard in America
and achieve financial success?
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Class Privilege
Is it possible to work very hard in America and
NOT achieve financial success?
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Able-Bodied Privilege
Question for you
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White Privilege Time Line
Early 1600s Approximately 50 wealthy Englishmen
acquired financial interests in the Virginia
Company of London. Mid 1600s The total number
of working servants in the new American
colonies outnumbered the gentleman by as
much as 100 to 1 Mid 1600s In Virginia there are
at least 10 documented servant
revolts 1676 Bacons Rebellion 1680 In
response to these uprisings, legislators began
enacting a series of Slave Codes through 1705.
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White Privilege Time Line
1755 Massachusetts Legislature 40 pounds for
every Indian male scalp, 20 pounds for every
female or male scalp under the age of
12. 1790 The Naturalization Act 1830 The Indian
Removal Act
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White Privilege Time Line
Vaiden, Mississippi
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White Privilege Time Line
1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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ute-vodka-ad/absolute-vodka-ad-restores-mexicos-hi
storical-borders/
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
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White Privilege Time Line
1858 President Lincolns Conflicting Views
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Abraham Lincoln
July, 1858 in Chicago, IL Let us discard all
this quibbling about this man and the other man,
this race and that race and the other race being
inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an
inferior position. Let us discard all these
things, and unite as one people throughout this
land, until we shall once more stand up declaring
that all men are created equal.
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Abraham Lincoln
September, 1858 in Charleston, IL I will say,
then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor
of bringing about in anyway the social and
political equality of the white and black races
that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of
making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of
qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry
with white people And inasmuch as they cannot
so live, while they do remain together there must
be the position of superior and inferior, and I
as much as any other man am in favor of having
the superior position assigned to the white race.
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White Privilege Time Line
1862 The state of Slavery
August, 1862 Exchange of letters appeared in the
New York Tribune between Lincoln and Horace
Greeley, editor of the paper. My paramount
object in this struggle is to save the Union, and
is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I
could save the Union without freeing any slave, I
would do it and if I could save it by freeing
all slaves, I would do it
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White Privilege Time Line
1862 The Morrill Act 1862 100 million acres of
the American Indians former land is given, free
of charge, to the railroads. 1875 The Civil
Rights Act of 1875 1879 Education of American
Indians 1882 The Chinese Exclusion
Act 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee Bureau of
the Census
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White Privilege Time Line
1898 11/9/1898 Wilmington, NC The White Mans
Declaration of Independence. 1908 Virginia
enacts a law that makes rape punishable by death.
1924 Oriental Exclusion Act 1924 The
Johnson-Reed Act
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White Privilege Time Line
1924 Pop Quiz What group in 1924 was finally
granted U.S citizenship?
1934 National Housing Act 1935 National Labor
Relations Act 1942 President Roosevelt signed
Executive Order 9066
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White Privilege Time Line
1945 The Atomic Bomb
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loads/2008/07/the_kiss1.jpg
War in Europe Ends May 8, 1945
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Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 1945
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argets/images/pho/00169/00169d0d.jpg
Nagasaki, Japan August 9, 1945
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White Privilege Time Line
Roeder, G.H. (1995). The Censored War. New Haven,
CT Yale University Press.
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White Privilege Time Line
1947 GI Bill
1947 Pop Quiz Who becomes the first African
American to play major league baseball? Extra
Credit What number did he wear?
1948 The Evacuation Claims Act 1954 Brown vs.
Board of Education
1965 Pop Quiz Who was assassinated on 2/21/65?
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White Privilege Time Line
1966 Still in this year over half of the states
prohibited black-white marriages
1968 Pop Quiz Who was assassinated on 4/4/68?
1970 Jackson State College
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ate_may_1970.htm
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White Privilege Time Line
1956-1971 F.B.I. Counterintelligence Program
COINTELPRO 1994 Crack vs. Cocaine 1996 Proposi
tion 209
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http//realtalkny.uproxx.com/2009/02/topic/topic/d
iscussions/a-concise-history-of-black-white-race-r
elations-in-the-us/
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39/ai_n27144847/
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White Privilege Time Line
1997 President Clinton hints at an apology for
Slavery 1977-1998 The Death Penalty 2001-2002 W
hite Collar Crime 2001 Human Genome Project
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White Privilege Contemporary
2005 Hurricane Katrina
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White Privilege Contemporary
2009 President Obama is sworn into office
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enes-from-the-white-house/
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White Privilege Contemporary
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White Privilege Contemporary
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White Privilege Contemporary
Environmental Justice
Children Percentage of population that live in communities that exceed ozone standards
Latino 69.2
Asian 67.7
Black 61.3
White 50.8
(Bullard, 2005)
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White Privilege Contemporary
Environmental Justice
Asthma Asthma-like symptoms Neither Statistical Significance
Black Students 24 10 66 p lt .001
White Students 10 7 83 Not statistically significant
(Maier, Arrighi, Morray, Llewllyn Redding, 1998)
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White Privilege Contemporary
Environmental Justice
Percentage of the population diagnosed with a Learning Disability
Children with Asthma 9
Children without Asthma 5
Fowler, Davenport Garg,1992
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White Privilege Contemporary
Environmental Justice
Received a failing grade Suspended or expelled from school
Black students with asthma 30.6 18.8
Latino students with asthma 22.9 5.5
White students with asthma 13.7 4.6
Fowler, Davenport Garg,1992
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Your Thoughts
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Keeping It In Perspective
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Action Orientated
This is not knowledge for the sake of knowledge,
this is knowledge for the sake of action.
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The Future
Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure. - Nelson Mandela
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The Future
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no
one thinks of changing themselves. - Leo Tolstoy
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The Future
Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou
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The Future
The truth will set you free. But first, it will
piss you off. - Gloria Steinem
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The Future
Cynicism is not revolutionary. - Amiri Baraka
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it
bends toward justice - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
but here is the thing it does not bend on its
own. It bends because each of us in our own ways
put our hand on that arc and we bend it in the
direction of justice.... - Barack Obama
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