No 'Knapsack of Invisible Privilege' for ESL University Students

Autor:	Stephanie Vandrick
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Sexual identity media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Ethnic group Gender studies Social class Language and Linguistics Education Power (social and political) Pedagogy Sociology Disadvantage Privilege (social inequality) media_common Meaning (linguistics)
Zdroj:	Journal of Language, Identity & Education. 14:54-59
ISSN:	1532-7701 1534-8458
DOI:	10.1080/15348458.2015.988574
Popis:	This essay is inspired by Peggy McIntosh’s (2003, originally 1988) well-known essay containing a list of items in the knapsack of privilege, meaning unearned and invisible privilege that White people unconsciously carry. Because of the power of such concretization of types of privilege, here I have created a similar list based on the (also unearned and invisible) privilege that non–English as a second language (generally English monolingual) students in universities in the United States often carry. This list thus illustrates, in contrast, both overt and subtle types of disadvantage and discrimination that many English as a second language (ESL) students, both international and immigrant, experience in classrooms, advising, housing, services, and encounters with nearby communities. Of course ESL students are not all the same, and some students experience more or less of such disadvantage, depending at least partly on their other identities such as social class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, an...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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