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Making a Big Deal out Of Nothing

Patriarchy, White Supremacy, and Teacher Preeminence

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Although most individuals have little difficulty identifying their own victimization within some major system of oppression—whether it be by race, social class, religion, physical ability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age or gender—they typically fail to see how their thoughts and actions uphold someone else’s subordination.

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Godsey, C. (2017). Making a Big Deal out Of Nothing. In: Pensoneau-Conway, S.L., Adams, T.E., Bolen, D.M. (eds) Doing Autoethnography. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-158-2_9

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