NYU Press Classics series examines “essential issues more relevant than ever to our contemporary world.” After George Floyd’s murder I wrote a blogpost “On Learning and Relearning about white privilege.” The press approached me, then, about updating Privilege Revealed and Margalynne Armstrong agreed to work with me on it. If I’m correct Privilege Revealed has been re-released, what was behind this decision? The trust that enabled this collaboration allowed a deeper examination of these issues. Much of that work informs the new material in the re-release of the “Classics” edition of the book.Ĭollaboration across racial lines remains the exception in exploring racial dynamics. Stephanie and Margalynne later became colleagues at Santa Clara Law and began writing together regularly about whiteness and the legal academy. They suggested that Margalynne Armstrong’s work on housing would be essential to the volume. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, the series editors for Critical America at NYU Press approached Stephanie about writing a book proposal about this work on privilege. Initially, Trina Grillo, Adrienne Davis, and Stephanie met regularly to hash out our ideas, some of which we published in essay form. How did Privilege Revealed come together?

I like to think that a thread of social justice advocacy runs through all of my writing. But the legacy of racial segregation, including denial of access to swimming pools, has meant that many children of color and their parents don’t know how to swim. Brave in the Water, a children’s picture book, portrays a young boy who is afraid the put his face in the water and his path to overcoming that fear.

Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America is a non-fiction book that examines the different forms of systemic privilege that perpetuate inequality and fly under the radar of antidiscrimination law. Can you tell us a little bit about them?Īt first blush these books seem quite different, coming from different corners of my life. Hi Stephanie, thank you for being on my blog today to discuss your books Privilege Revealed and Brave in the Water.

Brave in the Water by Stephanie Wildman