Targeting the Majority in Multicultural Education

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Targeting the Majority in Multicultural Education
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What is Social Justice

• Three Priority Principles
• Fulfilling the basic needs of the poor is of the
  highest priority
• Increasing participation for the marginalized is
  a high priority
• Investment policies should be directed to
  benefiting those who are poor or economically
  insecure
• Quoted directly from Lebacqz, K (1986). Six
  Theories of Justice

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Social Dominance Theory

• Key Features of Dominance
• Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)
• Hierarchy enhancing
• Hierarchy attenuating
• Hierarchy-Legitimizing Myths
• The importance of stories

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Stories are the secret reservoir of values
change the stories individuals and nations live
byand you change the individuals and nations.-
Ben Okri
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The Importance of Stories
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The Importance of Stories
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PRIVILEGE
Class
Gender
Race
Able-bodied
Religion
Sexual Orientation
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The first time I remember having a race was
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White Privilege
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The Fight
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Male Privilege
Maria Sharapova
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When I think of my wedding, I think of
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Heterosexual Privilege
Sources of Law

• 1,049

Of these, 179 (17) refer to tax laws
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Heterosexual Privilege
4 Chronological Stages of Media Representation
Non-recognition
Ridicule
Regulation
Respect
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Prominent Gay Characters
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Christian Privilege
If the world was 100 people, how would the
demographics by religion map out?

• Jewish
• Buddhist
• Muslim
• Hindu

• Christian
• Non-Religious (Atheist or Agnostic)
• Followers of Indigenous Religions
• Chinese Traditional

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Christian Privilege
33 Christians21 Muslims16 Non-religious
(atheist, agnostic, secular) 14 Hindus6
Buddhists 6 Followers of Indigenous Religions 6
Chinese Traditional Jews (number is below 1
person)
Total 102 due to statistical rounding errors
Source - http//www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adh
erents.html
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Class Privilege
Is it possible to work very hard in America and
achieve financial success?
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Class Privilege
Is it possible to NOT work very hard in America
and achieve financial success?
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Class Privilege
Is it possible to work very hard in America and
NOT achieve financial success?
?
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Able-Bodied Privilege
Take the Quiz
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Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift
wetter murder inner ladle cordage honor itch
offer lodge, dock florist. Disk ladle gull orphan
worry ladle cluck, wetter putty ladle rat hut,
end fur disk raisin pimple colder Ladle
Rat Rotten Hut.   Wan moaning Rat Rotten Huts
murder colder inset. Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, heresy
ladle basking winsome burden barter and shirker
cockles. Tick disk ladle basking tudor cordage
offer groin murder, hoe lifts honor udder site
offer florist. Shake lake, don stopper
laundry wrote, end yonder nor sorghum stenches
don stopper torque wet strainers.
Do you recognize this Story?
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl who
lived with her mother in a little cottage on the
edge of a large dark forest. This little girl
often wore a little cloak, with a pretty little
red hood, and for this reason people called her
Little Red Riding Hood. One morning Red Riding
Hoods mother called her inside. Little Red
Riding Hood, here is a little basket with some
bread and butter and sugar cookies. Take this
little basket to the cottage of your
grandmother. Shake a leg, dont stop along the
road, and under no circumstances, dont stop to
talk with strangers.
How about this story?
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Vaiden, Mississippi
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The Point
Keeping It In Perspective
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Action Orientated
This is not knowledge for the sake of knowledge,
this is knowledge for the sake of action.
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The Cost of White Privilege
Psychological Costs
Social Costs
Intellectual Costs
Moral Spiritual Costs
Material Physical Costs
Goodman, D. J. (2001). Promoting diversity and
social justice Educating people from privileged
groups. Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications.
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The Cost of Male Privilege
Limited Personal Relationships
Limited Displays on Emotions
Career Choice
Inappropriate Expectations of Manliness
Archaic Beliefs of Sexual Conquest
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The 7 Principles

• We must thoroughly ponder the goals of our
  Multicultural Education
• The fault for Privilege does not fall to our
  Privileged, traditional age college students
• We must find a way to effectively deal with the
  guilt experienced when first learning of
  privilege.

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The 7 Principles

• We ourselves must devote sufficient time to our
  own continual development and self-discovery.
• We must address that the type of cultural shift
  we wish to propose through true equality is
  counter-theoretical to capitalism.

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The 7 Principles

• Traditional age, privileged students often learn
  about issues relating to privilege and oppression
  through chance and circumstance.
• Students enter college in a dualistic mindset and
  are predominately influenced by rationalistic
  arguments.

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