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Discussion - Personal Experience of Privilege and Stigma

To prepare for this Discussion: Review the "Framework Essay" in Section I, the "Framework Essay" in Section II, and Reading 22 in the course text. Pay particular attention to the examples of privilege and stigma.

Think about a situation in which someone experienced positive treatment due to privilege related to perceived racial or ethnic identity. The person that you select should be someone who is famous or infamous, such as an athlete, a politician, an actor, a musician, an historical figure, or someone who has been highlighted in the media.

Think about a situation in which someone experienced negative treatment due to stigma related to perceived racial or ethnic identity. Just as in the previous situation, this person should also be someone who is famous or infamous.

Consider how the positive treatment due to privilege and the negative treatment due to stigma would differ.

Post a description of a situation in which your chosen person experienced positive treatment due to privilege related to perceived racial or ethnic identity. Explain why the individual was given this privileged treatment. Then, describe a situation in which your chosen person experienced negative treatment due to stigma related to perceived racial or ethnic identity. Explain why the individual was stigmatized. Finally, compare and contrast how the treatment differed in the situation representing privilege versus the situation representing stigma.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Required Readings - Rosenblum, K. E., & Travis T. C. (2016). The meaning of difference: American constructions of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexuality, and disability (7th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Section I, "Framework Essay"

Section II, "Framework Essay"

Section II, Reading 22, "Latinos in the U.S. Race Structure"

Section II, Reading 23, "Everybody''s Ethnic Enigma"

My racial or ethnic identity. I am white. However, I am deaf.

Stigma example - I used to feel "left out" or isolated at work. No One start to talk conservation with me. I am only one deaf in family and work (accounting department).