Privilege: Expanding on Marilyn Frye's “Oppression”

Bailey, Alison

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9833.1998.tb00124.x

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“…The term 'privilege', in this analysis, refers to broader structure of evaluation, where entire legitimation structures are tainted with the oppressive privileging of certain social identities and social, investigative practices in the form of "unearned power conferred systematically". For more thorough accounts of privilege see McIntosh 2008, Bailey 1998 that are forgiven as products of their time (e.g. G.W.F.…”

Section: Exclusion Via Exceptionalism Sandra Harding Offers a Definitmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Is This Paper Philosophy?

Dotson

2012

Comp. Philos.

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Section: Exclusion Via Exceptionalism Sandra Harding Offers a Definitmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Is This Paper Philosophy?

Dotson

2012

Comp. Philos.

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“…5 This is perhaps one of the most basic features of white privilege today -white people continue to be the recipients of unearned advantages, but typically consider their advantages to be the rightful rewards for their own hard work or aptitudes. In Alison Bailey's (1998) careful discussion of privilege she distinguishes between earned advantages and privilege which she defines as 'unearned assets conferred systematically ' (1998, p. 107). The unearned advantages which characterize white privilege can easily look like earned advantages (and indeed, as Bailey shows, the relationship between the two is complex), making it easy for those who are privileged not to see the way in which they are systematically advantaged by virtue of belonging to a particular societal group.…”

Section: White Privilege and Whitelinessmentioning

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White Anti-Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Matthews¹

2012

Politikon

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South Africans today live not only with the memory of the racial injustices of the past, but also with present injustices that are a consequence of that past. How should white South Africans live with these past and present injustices? On recognition of the racial injustices of the past and of the continuation of forms of white privilege today, involvement in ongoing antiracist struggles seems to be an appropriate way for white South Africans to respond to past and present injustices. However, some discussions of the way in which white privilege operates and is perpetuated in post-segregationist societies suggest the need for caution with regard to white involvement in antiracist struggles, arguing that some of the ways in which white people involve themselves in apparently anti-racist work actually result in the perpetuation rather than the erosion of white privilege. This article explores concerns about the intractability of white privilege while also ultimately defending the appropriateness of white involvement in anti-racist struggles.

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“…30 that they are unexamined -to those who benefit from them". 34 This video by Sacha Norrie highlights some of the aspects of privilege that can remain invisible.…”

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