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diversity workshops

Felice’s mission of making classism a diversity issue

January 17, 2011 by Betsy Leondar-Wright

When Felice Yeskel started graduate school in the 1980s, she was outraged that the Social Issues Training Project at the UMass Education School omitted classism from its curriculum. Every aspiring diversity trainer had to practice facilitating two-day workshops on sexism, racism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism and anti-Semitism – but not classism. Felice had been severely oppressed […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism in Diversity Work Tagged With: classism, diversity workshops, economic inequality, Felice Yeskel, Walter Benn Michaels

Don’t be a classist anti-racist!

January 17, 2011 by Gita Gulati-Partee 4 Comments

While naming “white privilege” is an important part of exposing and dismantling structural racism, I can see how the term “privilege” is hard to swallow for white folks on the downside of our economic system.  Being marginalized in one power system doesn’t mean you can’t be privileged in another.  But this particular form of pushback […]

Filed Under: Classism in Diversity Work, Race and Class Tagged With: alliance-building, classism, diversity workshops, legacy admissions, race and class, racism, Rationalizing privilege

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