Daily Archives: April 15, 2010

Explaining it….

What is meant by the idea of “white privilege?”
Here is a nice and brief  article about privilege from a rockin’ presentation by Steven Jones at the White Privilege Conference. The author uses the concept of living in a ‘right handed world’ to illuminate the concept of white privilege (or any privilege, for that matter). 2 pages of clear reading – go and read it!
And here is my tired and worn out look – I’m wearing it daily. Let’s just call it a self portrait. I took it while at the WPC – exhausted and working all my parts to dig deeper. As my students might say, “kind of emo!”