In an evocative piece at Salon, Myisha Cherry deconstructs racial and gender privilege. She says acknowledging such privileges forces people to admit they didn't achieve everything on their ...

In the second part of his take on Mitt Romney’s speech last night, Jonathan Chait makes a key observation about Romney’s message for the campaign: Romney has to couch the implications of his argument ...

Through work in women's studies, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The word “privilege” has become a polarizing concept ...

After outrage on social media, a diversity, inclusion and health equity office at Johns Hopkins University on Thursday retracted a definition of privilege that included English speakers, Christians, ...

While I was in Nanjing, China, recently for an academic conference, the host institution graciously provided me with a driver to and from the airport. A bright, engaging Chinese graduate student ...

“I can be pretty sure that when I walk down the street, nobody will yell at me about my body or tell me what they want to do to me sexually.” “I do not have to worry about the message my wardrobe ...