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  1. Beyond the Spectacle
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
  2. Complicating "White Privilege"
    Class, Race and Images of Wilma

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The most heavy-handedly enforced rule, and the one we, in the white privilege brigade, still seem determined to protect with the greatest earnestness, dictates that Nobody shall, during a conversation about white privilege, mention any identity that is not a racial identity or any oppression that is not racism. To my knowledge, there is no official rulebook governing conversations about white privilege. If such a rulebook did exist, though, I am sure that this rule would be printed in bold italics.
  3. Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.
  4. 19 Cats Who Need To Check Their Privilege
    Social justice isn’t just for humans.

    Resource Type: Article
    Social justice isn’t just for humans.
  5. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
  6. Privilege politics is reformism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A critique of privilege politics, which the author sees as a demobilizing force that boils down issues of oppression into what happens between individuals.
  7. Racism, Privilege, and Anti-Asian Hostility
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    Anti-Asian hostility is real. Asian privilege is not. Nor is hostility towards Asians merely the product of “white supremacy”; it emerges from a complex interplay of racism and identitarian politics. Whatever the reasons behind the Atlanta shootings, it’s time we stopped using myths about Asian Americans to sustain both racism and cartoonish views about racial differences.
  8. Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
  9. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  10. Throwing Out the Master's Tools and Building a Better House
    Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn't apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don't spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics -- and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
  11. Too rich to queue? Why markets and morals don't fit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Extract from Michael Sandel's new book, 'What Money Can't Buy' addressing how we are moving towards a society where everything is up for sale.
  12. Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.


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