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This unique text features personal accounts from mental health professionals, professors and students facing issues of privilege and oppression in our diverse society. In this collection of articles, writers discuss discoveries and experiences about their own privileges and oppression, and ultimately, the compassion they've developed for individuals confronted with discrimination.
Each essay will inspire you to reflect on your own encounters with privilege and oppression, while discussion questions at the end of each story provide an opportunity to process these issues on a personal level. By studying these revealing stories of insight and understanding, you'll learn how to recognize, examine, and finally, come to terms with your own privileges and discrimination -- allowing you to become a stronger, more acute, and more effective practitioner of the helping professions.
"The power of the text as I see it is that it moves away from the stale "politically correct" tone of most multicultural texts to a "personal compassionate" stance." -Professor Thomas Scofield, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
"This text far exceeds my department requirement for a racial and ethnic diversity course." -Professor Margaret Elbow, Texas Technical University
"The text is wonderfully written with a seldom seen openness, truth, and vulnerability." -Professor Joy Whitman, DePaul University at Loop
| Preface | p. viii |
| Val's Story | p. viii |
| Emergent Narratives: How the book was developed | p. ix |
| About the Contributors | p. xiii |
| Stories of Privilege: Introduction to Part I | p. 1 |
| Stories of White Privilege | |
| An Awakening to Privilege, Oppression, and Discrimination: Sharon's Story | p. 5 |
| White Out: Privilege and Its Problems | p. 11 |
| Supposed to Know Better: On Accepting Privilege | p. 25 |
| White Male Privilege in the Context of My Life | p. 33 |
| Stories of Socioeconomic Privilege | |
| Understanding and Experiencing Class Privilege | p. 39 |
| Stories of Able-Bodied Privilege | |
| Seeing Through Another Lens | p. 49 |
| Dirty Secrets and Unholy Unions: Disability-Based Oppression and Privilege | p. 53 |
| Stories of Heterosexual and Cisgender Privilege | |
| Increasing Awareness of Heterosexism and Homophobia: A Personal and Professional Exploration | p. 59 |
| Reflections on Heterosexual Privilege | p. 65 |
| How I Became a Counseling Professional Lesbian: Privilege and Challenges | p. 73 |
| "Head Ladies Center for Teacup Chain:" Exploring Cisgender Privilege in a (Predominantly) Gay Male Context | p. 81 |
| Fierce Dyke Caught Doing Husband's Laundry: Marriage-The New Frontier | p. 95 |
| Stories of Male Privilege and Sexism | |
| "Men Can't Be Raped:" The Challenge of Sexism in Counseling | p. 101 |
| Exploring Male Privilege: Journey of Two White Middle-Class Men | p. 107 |
| How I Got My Wings | p. 121 |
| Are We There Yet? ... Not Quite: Introduction to Part II | p. 129 |
| The Journey to Understanding Privilege | p. 131 |
| Stories of Assumed Privilege-Racism, Heterosexism, and Ageism: Introduction to Part III | p. 137 |
| Assumed Privilege: A Double-Edged Sword | p. 139 |
| "Who, Me? White?": The Process of Acknowledging and Challenging Racial Privilege | p. 149 |
| No Parece: The Privilege and Prejudice Inherent in Being a Light-Skinned Latino Without an Accent | p. 157 |
| Ageism: The "-Ism" We Will All Face One Day | p. 165 |
| Stories of Internalized Oppression, Acculturation, and Assimilation and the Complexities of Identity: Introduction to Part IV | p. 171 |
| Oppression of the Spirit: Complexities in the Counseling Encounter | p. 173 |
| Acculturation and Identity: Intra-Ethnic Distinctions Among Mexican Americans | p. 183 |
| Unmasking Within-Group Prejudice: A Case Study | p. 193 |
| International Perspectives-Stories of Privilege, Acculturation, and Assimilation: Introduction to Part V | p. 203 |
| Deprivations and Privileges We All Have | p. 205 |
| Navigating Oppression, Power and Privilege in Academia: An International Perspective | p. 213 |
| Going Through Cultural Barriers in Counseling | p. 223 |
| Elaborating a Different "Yes, But:" Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and Class in the Counseling Setting | p. 229 |
| Stories of Personal Compassion and Being Allies: Introduction to Part VI | p. 239 |
| Personal Compassion and Alliance Building: Observations of an Asian American Professor | p. 241 |
| Tales From the Heart of Dixie: Using White Privilege to Fight Racism | p. 251 |
| Yes, I See You're Committed to the Cause ... But Where's Your Credibility, and Why That Angst? | p. 257 |
| A Multicultural Unity Group for Graduate Students | p. 265 |
| Glossary | p. 273 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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