Richard Eberhardt, author of the recent letter, “‘White privilege’ not afforded to all — including my immigrant mother,“ Feb. 15), misunderstands the concepts surrounding “white privilege.” First, I ...

Last semester, The Herald published an article that explored the discussion of socioeconomic class among Brown students ("Let's (not) talk about class," April 25). The article primarily focused on how ...

A recent academic analysis has highlighted the harmful effects of privilege denial, describing it as both self-deceptive and socially damaging. The research suggests that when individuals refuse to ...

“Never have I ever been told I only got into BC because of my race,” reads the text overlaid on a picture of Thomas Napoli, the 2015-16 president of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College ...

And that status is affirmed via criticisms of those not demonstrating enough awareness of their privilege – a popular target is HBO's “Girls” creator Lena Dunham, whom Bovy labels “the think piece ...

Source: Neal Fowler/ Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Last Saturday, while leading the first day of a yearlong program, I responded unskillfully to a participant I will call James. What happened points ...

Step 1: a person with privilege (such as white, male, higher class, or some combination of the above) says or does something that is challenging for people without that privilege to hear, and, likely ...