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.
Highlights
Choosing to engage in relationship building rather than relying on titles has been an important component in becoming an equitable and inclusive program developer, researcher, and educator. Engaging in these practices I have become aware of the experiential knowledge the individuals I work with possess. While they may not have the same understanding of the world as I do, as a White middle class male (WMCM), the way in which they understand the world is highly informative and provides opportunities for all of us to challenge hegemonic norms that operate to maintain unjust social hierarchies based on the oppressive trinity in our society
I will discuss a number of theoretical praxis’ including Peggy McIntosh’s praxis of unpacking white privilege, Paulo Freire’s notions of needs based education, and Latino/a Critical Theory’s (LatCrit) and Critical Race Theory’s (CRT) vindication of alternative epistemologies which have allowed me to lift the veil shrouding the link between my identities and the oppressive trinity
Whiteness cannot be separated from class and masculinity in North America. They inform each other, breathing life and animating themselves, and operate as a single entity. Whether it is through the social practices of sexualized violence against women to the election of a xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist, the cultural symbols embedded within our educational system, or the material conditions that are rooted in and continue to benefit WMCM, the oppressive trinity is ever-present physically or otherwise
Summary
Within a field that I am personally connected to, University athletic departments the numbers inflate across the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I administration; 87.7% of athletic directors, 87.2% of associate directors, 88.1% of assistant athletic directors, 91.8% of faculty athletic representatives, and 92.7% of sports information directors all identify as white [3]. These statistics matter because we are becoming a more diverse society. I hope that drawing on a vast array of resources from a variety of disciplines I can introduce new strategies, praxes, and practices all individuals can use to recognize the oppressive trinity either within themselves or how it is governing their experiences
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