Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Patricia Leavy -- Introduction to Privilege Through the Looking-Glass / Patricia Leavy -- Unpacking (Un)Privilege or Flesh Tones, Red Bones, and Sepia Shades of Brown / Robin M. Boylorn -- Men Hug Me at Work / Adrienne Trier-Bieniek -- The Voice of White Male Power and Privilege / Christopher N. Poulos -- I Am My Grandmother’s Child / Venus E. Evans-Winters -- Angryblackscholar: Unpacking White Privilege as a Black Female Unapologetically Claiming and Asserting My Right to Live My Dreams / Donna Y Ford -- My Responsibility to Change / Liza Talusan -- Black Here, Oburni There / Amy L. Masko -- Buying a Better World? The Intersections of Consumerism, Class, and Privilege in Global Women’s Rights Activism / Mayme Lefurgey -- Reflections on Rural / Sarrah J. Grubb -- Being a (Gay) Duck in a Family of (Heterosexual) Swans / Tony E. Adams -- Swirling Shades of Right and Wrong / Tammy Bird -- Male or Female? / Em Rademaker -- Transcending Gender Binarization / Shalen Lowell -- Titanium Tits / Kate Birdsall -- On Not Being a Victoria’s Secret Model / Lisa Barry -- The Ephemeral Passport / Jean Kilbourne -- It’s a Small World / Lisa Phillips -- The Pen Stops / Nancy La Monica -- Responsive Stories / miroslav pavle manovski -- Death by a Thousand Cuts / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- About the Contributors / Patricia Leavy.

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Winner of the 2018 USA Best Book Awards (Anthologies: Non-Fiction)! Finalist in the categories Multi-Cultural Nonfiction and Education/Academic. A contemporary alternative to the other texts on the market featuring original essays. Contributors include Jean Kilbourne, Robin M. Boylorn, and Donna Y. Ford Privilege Through the Looking-Glass is a collection of original essays that explore privilege and status characteristics in daily life. This collection seeks to make visible that which is often invisible. It seeks to sensitize us to things we have been taught not to see. Privilege, power, oppression, and domination operate in complex and insidious ways, impacting groups and individuals, and yet, these forces that affect our lives so deeply seem to at once operate in plain sight and lurk in the shadows, making them difficult to discern. Like water to a fish, environments are nearly impossible to perceive when we are immersed in them. This book attempts to expose our environments. With engaging and powerful writing, the contributors share their personal stories as a means of connecting the personal and the public. This volume applies an intersectional perspective to explore how race, class, gender, sexuality, education, and ableness converge, creating the basis for privilege and oppression. Privilege Through the Looking-Glass encourages readers to engage in self and social reflection, and can be used in a range of courses in sociology, social work, communication, education, gender studies, and African American studies. Each chapter includes discussion questions and/or activities for further engagement.