The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege

by Ferber, Abby; Jimenez, Christina; Herrera, Andrea; Samuels, Dena

• ISBN13: 9780073404110
• ISBN10: 007340411X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Written by four authors from different disciplinary backgrounds, this reader promotes a commitment to an intersectional approach to teaching race, class, gender and sexuality. Unlike most books of its kind, it highlights the duality of privilege and oppression and the effects that race, gender, and sexuality have on our lives. This reader includes poems, reflective literary prose, historical events and documents, images drawn from the media, contemporary statistics of inequalities, visual images, and tools that empower students to become agents for social change.

Table of Contents

The Matrix Reader:Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege

Table of Contents Leslie Feinberg, Excerpt

Afterword

Constructing Identities and Examining Intersections • Poem: “I am not your Princess” Chrystos, in Amy Kesselman

Constructing Identity

Excerpts from Becoming a Visible Man

Gender Relations

The Invention of Heterosexuality

Excerpts from “Masculinity as Homophobia

Historical Image: From Norman Kleeblatt (ed.), “The physiognomy of race in the medical anthropology of the late 19th century”

Racial Formations

Historical Advertisement: Kathy Peiss, “Black Skin Remover”

Failing to See”

Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves

"Social Class Matters"

Bringing Classism into the Race & Gender Picture

The Social Construction of Disability” Examining the Intersections • Poem: “One”

Sharon Hwang Colligan in Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

Patricia Hill Collins, “Toward a New Vision”

What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar About Identity

Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized?

Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism

You’re Not a Real Boy if You’re Disabled

Choosing Up Sides

Seeing More Than Black and White

Understanding Oppression and Privilege • Poem: Joy Harjo, "I Give You Back"

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Throughout Work in Women’s Studies

Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

Defining Racism: Can We Talk?

Privilege: Expanding on Marilyn Frye’s ‘Oppression

Excerpts from Racism without Racists

La Guera

White Privilege Shapes the U.S.Robert Jensen

The Costs of American Privilege

How We Got Here: The Historical Context • Poem: “I, too,” Langston Hughes in Voices & visions: the poet in America. Helen Vendler, (ed.), New York : Random House, 1987. The Big Picture: Understanding the Historical Context • Poem: Alice Walker, “Patriot,”

Gregory Campbell, “Many Americas: The Intersection of Class, Race, and Ethnic Identity” • Postcard: Kenneth W. Goings, Depicting a little girl in a watermelon patch with a swollen stomach • Souvenir: Kenneth W. Goings, Mechanical cast-iron bank

Disability Discrimination and the Evolution of Civil Rights in Democratic Societies

A History of Women’s Bodies

Thirteen Key

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