Abstract
Well over a decade ago, when I was in my honors year, I found myself struggling to write a thesis on race and Whiteness in Australia in which I explicitly positioned myself as a White gay man. The data that I examined in the thesis reflected my own experiences of race privilege, yet many of the experiences I drew upon also involved my identity as a gay man and my experiences of marginalization in this regard. In exploring my own experiences of privilege living as a White person in a colonial nation, I was left feeling somewhat uneasy; I had a nagging feeling that, somehow, while this emphasis upon race privilege told the most important story, it didn't tell all of the story: It didn't locate me within a range of identity categories from which I stand both to benefit and potentially to be disadvantaged.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Explorations in diversity |
Subtitle of host publication | Examining the complexities of privilege, discrimination and oppression |
Editors | Sharon K. Anderson, Valerie A. Middleton |
Place of Publication | New York, U.S.A |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Chapter | 8 |
Pages | 74-84 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Edition | 3 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190617059 , 9780190617066 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780190617042 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Race
- Gender
- Sexuality
- class
- Clinical setting
- Clinical practice
- cultural identity
- Health care