{"id":87,"date":"2014-05-03T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2015-08-10T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:33:50","slug":"povertyprivilege-chapter-4-privilege","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/povertyprivilege\/povertyprivilege-chapter-4-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty\/Privilege Chapter 4: Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;Privileged to Be Here: A Primer on Privilege&#8221; by Joe Kay<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/articles\/privileged-be-here\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Kay, &#8220;Privileged to Be Here: A Primer on Privilege&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Equal Pay Day<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/04\/07\/presidential-proclamation-national-equal-pay-day-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Presidential Proclamation&#8211;National Equal Pay Day 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Racial and Gender Profile of the U.S. Senate<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/reference\/resources\/pdf\/R41647.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Membership of the 112th Congress: A Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Peggy McIntosh<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Peggy McIntosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isr.umich.edu\/home\/diversity\/resources\/white-privilege.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Additional Readings and Questions for Chapter 4: Privilege<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Ta-Nehisi Coates. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/03\/other-peoples-pathologies\/359841\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Other People&#8217;s Pathologies.&#8221;<\/a> \u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>. \u00a0(March 30, 2014). \u00a0<\/strong>Continuing a debate with writer Jonathan Chait, Coates takes him to task for seeming to conflate the \u201cculture of poverty\u201d with \u201cblack culture,\u201d arguing instead for \u201ccultural dexterity\u201d in which each culture\u2019s history is honored and their skills have value and logic in context.<\/p>\n<p>ANALYZE<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Coates claims that Chait conflates what two different types of culture in his argument?<\/li>\n<li>Coates writes: \u201cPeople who take a strict binary view of culture (\u201cculture of privilege = awesome; culture of poverty = fail\u201d) are afflicted by the provincialism of privilege and thus vastly underestimate the dynamism of the greater world.\u00a0 They extoll \u2018middle-class values\u2019 to the ignorance and exclusion of all others.\u201d\u00a0 Coates argues that developing \u201ccultural dexterity\u201d is key.\u00a0 What does this mean?<\/li>\n<li>Coates uses an analogy to explain his problem with Chait\u2019s \u201cjaunty and uplifting narrative\u201d of American history related to slavery.\u00a0 What Chait might characterize as \u201cprogress,\u201d Coates says is like saying: \u201cHow can you say I have a history of violence given that I\u2019ve repeatedly stopped pummeling you?\u201d\u00a0 Assess this differing viewpoint.\u00a0 Does Coates\u2019 analogy hold up?\u00a0 Is it accurate and fair?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>EXPLORE<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What does Coates mean when he writes: \u201cWhen <i>The New Republic<\/i> wanted to dramatize the evils of AFDC, there was really no doubt about whose portrait they\u2019d pick.\u201d \u00a0Research the mission of\u00a0<i>The New\u00a0Republic.<\/i>\u00a0 Look at the cover photo included with Coates&#8217; article and do a visual rhetorical analysis explaining what you think the photo conveys to readers.<\/li>\n<li>Coates writes: \u201cThe United States of America did not save black people; black people saved the United States of America.\u201d Explain this claim.\u00a0 Research this further through sources mentioned in the article or through library research.\u00a0 How is clarifying this point central to Coates\u2019 argument?<\/li>\n<li>Coates says that he is \u201chappy\u201d that Chait chose to engage him on this subject.\u00a0 Research their debate further and assess the tone and quality of their exchange. \u00a0Do you think both writers are genuinely \u201chappy\u201d to have this exchange?\u00a0 Why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>You Can Never Have Too Much Money, New Research Shows (The Brookings Institute)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/interactives\/2013\/income-well-being\">http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/interactives\/2013\/income-well-being<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Privileged to Be Here: A Primer on Privilege&#8221; 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