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The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege promotes a commitment to an interdisciplinary approach to teaching race, class, gender, and sexuality. This approach introduces readers to core social identities and demonstrates how
those identities are intersecting, multidimensional, and complex. Unlike most books of its kind, The Matrix Reader highlights the duality of privilege and oppression and the effects that race, class, gender, and sexuality have on our lives. This reader includes poems, reflective literary prose, overviews of key historical themes, discussion of particular historical events and documents, images drawn from the media, contemporary statistics of inequalities, visual images, and tools that empower readers to become agents for social change. |
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Praise for The Matrix Reader |
"What an amazingly valuable resource! This reader is both a comprehensive survey of the most current intersectional analyses of race, class, gender, and sexuality around and a judiciously presented and edited text that will be enjoyed by students and appreciated by instructors."
-- Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook
"The Matrix Reader beautifully brings together a wealth of writings on many differing aspects of oppression and privilege. It honors the exploration of all parts. Further, the editors have brilliantly selected works that emphasize intersecting systems of power. The Matrix Reader wonderfully offers differentiation and cohesion, increasing our capacities for making distinctions and making connections. Who doesn't need both, to live in the modern world?"
-- Peggy McIntosh, Wellesley College |
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