I propose that
white privilege should be reconceptualized with in a frame of privlege. This braoder sense would help people understand privlege on multiple levels and throughout multiple areas of the world. However, I argue that skin color (phenotype) and gender (sexuality included) are the only things that cannot be immediatly code switched in a situation. My colleague Jesse Goodman (Indiana University) argues that we should look at inequality and things within the frame of "
rights" not privlege. For example, black people and muslims have the right not to be racially profiled. I as a white male know that I have the privlege of not being profiled. This is a much deeper and copmplex discussion. Within the
pedagogy of humanity it is understood that power is at the core of privilege. Rights do not denote power though Jesse may subscribe to a connotation that rights equal power. Rights must be defined as distinguished as constitional and moral/ethical framings. Rights are not absultes within society nor agreed upon by everyone.
Antonio Garcia
Indiana University
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