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Purpose of this assignment: To understand privilege, power and racial and gender difference Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfED0odBQ80 Assignment: Watch the video The Gender Knot Privilege Power and Difference. Copy and paste all the questions, BOLD them, and then type your answers under each bolded question. 2 points per question correctly answered. 1. What does research show about why we live in racially segregated neighborhoods? Which race of people is shown to not want to live with others? 2. How does Johnson characterize white responses to mention of white privilege? 3. How does Johnson describe privilege? 4. What does Johnson say about naming male violence against women, and the responses that naming violence as male violence generates? 5. Comment on the fact that when you tell a white person that what they have done is racist, they think you have said something about their character instead of focusing on the consequences of their actions. 6. What commonly happens to language that is developed to serve the function of social criticism? 7. What reality is radical feminism premised on? 8. How does Johnson reclaim words like ‘radical feminism’? 9. Give an example of how someone can be privileged and unprivileged at the same time. 10. Some of the best writing by men on patriarchy has been done by gay men. Why is this the case? What does this tell us about the value of the view of the outsider? 11. What does Johnson say about good intentions? 12. How do hiring practices advantage white male heterosexual candidates? 13. What would our film archives tell aliens about US society, and who the main actors are? 14. Who is the ‘we’ who don’t like to lose wars etc? 15. When you are in a privileged group, the default is that you are never supposed to be inconvenienced. Recount the example Johnson gives of the white colleague who complained that she was tired of hearing about race. 16. Johnson says that if we want to make a difference, we must intend to make a difference and then create a structure to intentionally perform one act a day that can make that difference. What action can you think of performing daily that can make a difference to race relations in this country. 17. What kinds of things does Johnson ask us to create awareness of? 18. What does Johnson say about the cost that white people pay for living in a white supremacist society like the US?
