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A new array of maybe cultural experiences, right? So people feel included.ĭr. Jimenez: And that’s important work to kind of add on to our discussions and our institutionals practices. Jimenez: You know, diversity work in the 1990s, when I really got to it, was about what I call potlucks and celebration of holidays.ĭr.

So, it really set me off a path of trying to understand, supporting a diverse population and of course that’s an idea that connects well beyond education to healthcare, to alternative institutions in society where we want to be sure that we’re not perpetuating exclusion, but rather we’re making everyone feel included.ĭr. This is a place and space where they typically, you know, didn’t have a lot of previous experience with, maybe their parents didn’t go to college.

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It became very clear to myself and a group of colleagues who really wanted to understand better, how to best support our students of color, our first-generation students in the university setting, students from more towns, socioeconomic background, how we could allow them to feel like they belonged at the university. So I am, as you mentioned, an educator in the university setting. Tell us how that evolved and then talk to us about the tie-in and the dynamic.ĭr. So, I’m so intrigued about you having identified the relationship between power and privilege. Jimenez, thank you so much for joining us for the podcast.ĭr. She is with us today at the Caucus to talk about addressing power and privilege in your everyday interactions, which is something we so need to understand a lot more. As well as authoring several books, she has published in the Journal of Urban History, Black History Bulletin and she co-edited the Matrix Reader, examining the dynamics of oppression and privilege. Her research explores citizenship, urban politics and popular culture in the Mexican city. She specializes in Mexican History, Latin American History and City and Citizenship. Christina Jimenez, a Professor of History at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

Bonnie Simpson Mason and, this week we are recording our conversations at the National Harbour in Maryland, where we are enjoying a program of speakers and workshops at the annual Movement Is Life Caucus. Mason: Welcome to a new episode of the Health Disparities Podcast, conversations about health disparities with people who are working to eliminate them across the country. Fostering sensitivity to the power balance between “normative identities” and “others” is essential to inclusivity and minority empowerment. Building on dynamics articulated by Peggy McIntosh in her seminal publication “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”, Dr Jimenez discusses how most of the inequities we see in healthcare and wider society are structural and systemic, which means they are built-in, and automatically benefit certain groups. is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, and an expert in the processes of privilege that can both limit and promote opportunities for individuals, dependent on factors such as race, ethnicity, gender and class. Featuring Christina Jimenez, PhD.Ĭhristina Jimenez, Ph.D. Podcast Episode 44: Exploring the “invisible knapsack” concept developed by Peggy McIntosh to understand privilege and power in the context of health and diversity.