Privilege, Power, and Difference 3rd Edition by Allan G. Johnson, ISBN-13: 978-0073404226

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Privilege, Power, and Difference 3rd Edition by Allan G. Johnson, ISBN-13: 978-0073404226

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• Publisher: ‎ McGraw Hill; 3rd edition (February 6, 2017)
• Language: ‎ English
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0073404225
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0073404226

Privilege, Power, and Difference is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, the 3rd edition links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This extraordinary book has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege. The thoroughly updated 3rd edition includes a new epilogue about the conflicting worldviews that can make these issues so difficult.

Table of Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

About the Author

Also by Allan G. Johnson

Introduction

Chapter 1 We’re in Trouble

The Trouble We’re In

Chapter 2 Privilege, Oppression, and Difference

Difference Is Not the Problem

Mapping Difference: Who Are We?

The Social Construction of Difference

What Is Privilege?

Two Types of Privilege

Privilege as Paradox

Oppression: The Flip Side of Privilege

Chapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination

How Capitalism Works

Capitalism and Class

Capitalism, Difference, and Privilege: Race and Gender

The Matrix of Domination and the Paradox of Being Privileged and Oppressed At the Same Time

Chapter 4 Making Privilege and Oppression Happen

Avoidance, Exclusion, Rejection, and Worse

A Problem for Whom?

And That’s Not All

We Cannot Heal Until the Wounding Stops

Chapter 5 The Trouble with the Trouble

Chapter 6 What It Has to Do with Us

Individualism: Or, the Myth That Everything Bad Is Somebody’s Fault

Individuals, Systems, and Paths of Least Resistance

What It Means to Be Involved in Privilege and Oppression

Chapter 7 How Systems of Privilege Work

Dominance and Control

Identified with Privilege

The Center of Attention

The Isms

The Isms and Us

Chapter 8 Getting Off the Hook: Denial and Resistance

Deny and Minimize

Blame the Victim

Call It Something Else

It’s Better This Way

It Doesn’t Count If You Don’t Mean It

I’m One of the Good Ones

Not My Job

Sick and Tired

Getting Off the Hook by Getting On

Chapter 9 What Can We Do?

The Myth That It’s Always Been This Way, and Always Will

Gandhi’s Paradox and The Myth of No Effect

Stubborn Ounces: What Can We Do?

Epilogue: A Worldview Is Hard to Change

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Notes

Resources

Credits

Index

Allan G. Johnson is a nationally recognized writer, novelist, and public speaker who has worked on issues of privilege, oppression, and social inequality since receiving his PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1972. His nonfiction writing has been translated into several languages and excerpted in numerous anthologies. His novels, The First Thing and the Last and Nothing Left to Lose, come from a lifelong devotion to the art of writing coupled with a passionate commitment to understanding what it means to be a human being in a complex world full of unnecessary suffering. He shares his life with Nora L. Jamieson, a writer, healer, and gatherer of women.

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