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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5(3), pp. 233 - 253
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050307
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Physically Embodying the Oppressive Trinity: Engaging in Disruptive Identity Praxis as a White Middle Class Male
Charles D. T. Macaulay *
Sport Management Program, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, United States
ABSTRACT
As an educator in multiple roles who embodies, what I contend is the oppressive trinity while working with individuals who possess identities vastly different than mine, I use this text discuss several practices and praxis that can disrupt the normative standard of American society. First, I discuss how capitalism, racism, and patriarchy operate not as autonomous and separate doctrines, but rather animate and give life to each other and thus should be thought of as one collective ideology as referred to as the oppressive trinity. Second, I discuss autoethnography as an experiential and narrative driven methodological approach incorporated in this analysis. This methodological approach is a unique stylistic and theoretical approach to research, which fuses theory and personal narrative together. Finally, I share a number of practices and praxis I have used to shred the veil obscuring my vision of how the oppressive trinity functions through its physical embodiment, material objects, cultural symbols, and social practices.
KEYWORDS
White Privilege, Personal Developmental Trajectory, Oppressive Trinity, Autoethnography, Critical Self-reflexivity, Capitalism, Racism, Patriarchy
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[1] Charles D. T. Macaulay , "Physically Embodying the Oppressive Trinity: Engaging in Disruptive Identity Praxis as a White Middle Class Male," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 233 - 253, 2017. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050307.
(b). APA Format:
Charles D. T. Macaulay (2017). Physically Embodying the Oppressive Trinity: Engaging in Disruptive Identity Praxis as a White Middle Class Male. Sociology and Anthropology, 5(3), 233 - 253. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050307.