Lesbians and White Privilege

This volume challenges, recognizes, and questions whiteness, with the intention that it encourages us to do the same, in our own lives, practices, behaviors, and disciplines.

List of contents

Introduction
Andrea L. Dottolo
1. White and Lesbian: Intersections of Privilege and Oppression
Catherine Crisp
2. Sustaining White Homonormativity: The Kids Are All Right as Public Pedagogy
Tammie M. Kennedy
3. Boston in the 1970s: Is There a Lesbian Community? And if There is, Who is in it?
Amy Hoffman
4. The Costume of Shangri-La: Thoughts on White Privilege, Cultural Appropriation, and Anti-Asian Racism
C. Michelle Kleisath
5. Being White Helps: Intersections of Self-Concealment, Stigmatization, Identity Formation, And Psychological Distress in Racial and Sexual Minority Women
Shannon I. McIntyre, Erica A. Antonucci and Sara C. Haden
6. "The Normative Idea of Queer is a White Person": Understanding Perceptions of White Privilege among Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women of Color in Toronto, Canada
Carmen H. Logie and Marie-Jolie Rwigema
7. Complexity Overlooked: Enhancing Cultural Competency in the White Lesbian Counseling Trainee through Education and Supervision
Deanna N. Davis

About the author

Andrea L. Dottolo is associate professor of psychology at Rhode Island College, Providence, USA. Her research focuses on social identities, and she teaches Gender and Women's Studies, and Queer Studies. Dottolo's scholarship on race interrogates white racial identities, including psychological features of whiteness and privilege.

Summary

This volume challenges, recognizes, and questions whiteness, with the intention that it encourages us to do the same, in our own lives, practices, behaviors, and disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea L. (Rhode Island College Dottolo
• Assisted by: Andrea L. Dottolo (Editor), Dottolo Andrea L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9780367695064
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69506-4
• No. of pages: 102
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity