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A REFLECTION FROM WITHIN (15% of Final Grade) Class 4
\nStudents will work independently to complete \u201cA Reflection from Within\u201d to critically engage with the course
\nreadings from Week 2 that explore privilege and web of oppression.
\nStudents will engage in reflexive practice and complete the following expectation:
\na) Wholeheartedly and thoroughly identify privileges and\/or web of oppressions experienced in one\u2019s
\npersonal life-space. Students are free to choose any constructs most relevant to them, however a total of
\n3 must be explored (min. of 750 words)
\nb) An exploration into how these privileges and\/or web of oppressions will shape their professional life space as a CYC Practitioner working with young people and their families (min. 600 words)
\nHeadings should be utilized to organize the paper integrating Help write my thesis – APA referencing guidelines. Specific
\nreferences from a minimum of 3 additional external academic sources (not grey literature) must be
\nappropriately integrated to augment understanding of the constructs. This submission must be uploaded as a
\nPDF document.
\n\u201cA Reflection from Within\u201d Rubric \u2013 Total of 30 Marks
\nPoor Needs
\nImprovement
\nSatisfactory Good Excellent
\nIntroduction
\n(2.5)
\nNo description of
\nwhat will be
\nconducted in the
\nintroduction
\nLimited
\ndescription of the
\nintroduction about
\nwhat will be done
\nMullaly, Robert P.. (2010). Chapter 10: Unpacking Our Knapsack of Invisible . In (Eds.), Challenging oppression and
\nconfronting privilege : a critical social work approach (pp. 287-320). Oxford University Press.
\nThis work is protected by copyright and the making of this copy by Toronto Metropolitan University was authorized
\nby Oxford University Press.
\nThis copy may be used solely by students registered in CYC406 011 – Therapeutic Life-Space – F2022 at Toronto
\nMetropolitan University, and may not be distributed to any person outside the aforementioned class, whether by
\ncopying or by transmission, and whether electronically or in paper form.
\nC h apter 10
\nUnpacking Our Knapsacks of
\nInvisible Privilege
\nPrivilege ;s lIot somethillg 1 take awl which r therefore havt the op\/ro’l of ‘lOt tllkillg.
\nIt is something tllll! society gives me, mzd ullleH I dumgr the institutiollS which giw it
\n10 me, they will con\/llliu to gh’e it, mid, will (OlltiIll4( to haw it, howtl’e r lIobie (lid
\negalit(ln’an my i ‘lfe,llio7lS.
\n– Harry Brod, A1f11 ~ Uves
\nIntroduction
\nThe flip side of the coin of oppression is privilege. However, compared to oppression
\nin general and anti-oppressive SOci,l] work in particular, not much has been written
\non prhilege in the social work literature. This is most unfortunate, bec.l.l1se the main
\nreason we have oppression is because we have privilege. It is similar to the relationship
\nbetween pOH’rty and w(“,lth wc haw poverty bee,’lI:;c w(‘ have wealth. If we want
\nto truly understand poverty, we must understand wealth. If we want to do something
\nserious about poverty, we must do something serious about we.llth. And if “,-e want to
\ntruly understand oppression, we mu.t underst,md priv leg~’. Oppr(‘”ssion and privilege
\ngo hand in hand. Just as prhikg(‘” opens doors of opportunity, oppression slams them
\nshut (Johnson 2006). Just as poverty wi!! always be with us until we do something
\nabout wealth, we will always have oppression until we do something ahout privilege.
\nAs articuiat(‘”d by Harry Brod in the quote above, privilege is not something we take;
\nit is given to us by society if we possess the characteristics that society values, such as
\nb(‘”ing male, white, heterosexual, afilL!ent, and non-disabled .
\nFerber (2003) offers two major reasons why we have t(‘”nded to ignore the issue of
\nprh-ilege. First, it implicates those with power, and second, it is far (‘”asi(‘”r to explor(‘” the
\nproblems faced by oppressed groups than it is to explore our own roles in p(‘”rpetuating
\nin(‘”quality. This is unfortunate, because we are all implicated in syst(,”llls of oppression.
\n‘Although as individu.lls we may not believe that we are oppressive people, we still
\nparticip,llC in relations of oppression and gain various privileges from that relationship’
\n(Ferber 2003, 320). No matt(‘”r how much I write or how many classes I Ie’ach about
\ninequality, oppression, racism, .lnd sexism, I continue to reap the privikge’s of being
\n288 (IIALLE.”JG1XG OpPllEssJO …..
\na whitt.’ malc. And although I do not feel ashamed of or guilty about my racc or my
\ngender (after all, I have no control over them), I struggle with the knowledge that I am
\ngiven certain privileges by society becausc I was born with particular characteristics
\nthat society valucs. I do not have privilege because of who I am as a person or because
\nof what I haw done. Rather, I have privilege because of the social categories th;;!t, for
\nthe most part, I was born into. As stated by Alison Bailey (2004, 307), ‘privilege is
\ngranted and birth is the easiest way of being granted privilege.’
\nIf we focus only on oppression, thc structured invisibility of privilege is reinforced.
\nI agree with Alison B,tiley (2004, 302) when she says that ‘any undcrstanding of
\noppression is incomplete without recognition of the role privilege plays in maintaining
\nsystems of domination: This chapter will explore the concept and thc structural nature
\nof privilege, some of its major characteristics (including its invisibility to privilegcd
\npersons), the dynamics of privilege or how systems of prh’ilege work, reasons why
\nprivileged persons become dcfensivc and uncomfortable in talking about it, and why
\ndominant groups do not see privilege as a problem. We …. ill also discuss the myth of
\nmeritocracy, and some of the specihc pnvilcges that are attached to various poSitions
\nof domination will be outlincd. Finall)’, wc will explore what all this has to do with
\nus as individuals and as social workers, along with what we can do about prhilege to
\nmake a difference.
\nThe Nature of Privilege
\nIn Chapter 2, it “”‘as mentioned that all of us suffer from some kind of frustration, hurt,
\nand restriction at some point in our lives, but this docs not mean that we are oppressed.
\nWhat determines oppression is when a person is blocked [rom opportunities to self\u00b7
\ndevelopment or is excluded from full participation in society or is assigned :l second\u00b7
\nclass citizenship not because of a lack of individual talent or merit but because of
\nhis or her membership in a particular group or category of peoplc. Similarly, what
\ndetermines privilege is not any particular advantagcs a person might han’ but whNher
\nthese a1.ivantages were e.uned or conferred system,ltically by society on the basis of
\nhis or her membership in a particular soci,ll group (Hcldke and O’Connor 2004;
\nMcintosh 2003). Just as ,Ill oppression counts as harm but not all harms count as
\noppression, all privilege is advantageous, but not all advantages count as privilege
\n(e.g., having a driver’s licence, holding politic,11 office, becoming a !l.ltur,wzed citizen,
\nwhich are all filmed advantJges). What determines oppr~’ss on and privilege is the
\ns}”stematically confe rred naturc of harms in tIll’ fomler and (unfarlled) advantagcs
\nin the latter (Ibiley 2004). In her classic article on oppression, Marilyn Frye (1983)
\nargues that if we want to delcrmine whether ,I p,lrticuJar harm or restriction qualifies
\nas oppreSSion, we have to look at that harm in context to see whether or not it plays a
\nrole in maint,lining a structure that is oppressive. Similarly, Bailey (2004) argues that if
\nwe want to decrtl1l!1t! whether or not a particular advant,lge qualifies as a privilege, we
\nneed to look ,It the advantage in context to see whether or not it plays a role in keeping
\ncomplex systems of privilege in place. Sisneros el al. (2008) point out that pri’ileged
\nU” ‘PA.CJ(ING OUR \/G’IA.PSA.C;J(~ Of’ ISnSlllLE PRn’1U:G\u00a3 289
\npeople may experience hardship but unless these hardships are grounded in structural
\nbarriers that affect people in vital and limiting ways, they cannot be considered as
\nforms of oppression.
\nThus, there are 1″0 kinds of advantages- earned and une.uned- and those that
\nare unearned are considered to be privileges. The corollary is that advantages that are
\nearned (e.g., a quality educatioll, skills, a good reputation) are not considered privileges
\n(although one could argue that some ad

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