Disempowering minorities: a critique of Wilkinson's `task for social scientists and practitioners'.(response to article by Doris Wilkinson, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 27, p. 115, 2000)

Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare | June 1, 2002| | Copyright

In this article, I examine Wilkinson's (2000) injunction that practitioners "omit entirely the `minority' concept" (pp. 124-25). I maintain that Wilkinson's argument disempowers groups--such as gays and the disabled-who have used a "minority" identity effectively, and speciously indicates that African-Americans would benefit from such retrenchment, thereby implying that social justice is a zero-sum game. Rather, "minority" coalitions are effectively pursuing justice for all. Moreover, Wilkinson's deconstruction of "minority" conflates conceptual breadth with conceptual ...

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