GYUDE MOORE

March 24, 2016, 3:00PM

A Berea College Convocation

Sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Learning through Service (CELTS). Service Convocation.

 


In all communities, patterns of privilege and power persist, perpetuated through enforcement of clear lines of separation or “margins.” Gyude Moore, ’06, Liberia’s Minister of Public Works asserts that the role of just people everywhere is to regard margins with skepticism and to push them back further and further.
 

 

A Berea College graduate, William Gyude Moore, was appointed as one of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s cabinet-level ministers. Moore was head of his country’s Public Works Ministry.

From 2009 until 2012, he was Senior Aide in the Office of the President.

Moore currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff/Head of the Program Delivery Unit in the Executive Office of the President.

Stop by and check out a book from the display. Listed below are a few of the books that are included in the display.

Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson
Call Number: 303.3 J661p 2001 - Book Display (2nd floor vending area)
This brief supplemental book provides students with an easily applied theoretical model for thinking about systems of privilege and difference. Writing in accessible, conversational prose, Johnson joins theory with engaging examples in ways that enable students to see the nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it.
 
 

 

Privilege by Michael S. Kimmel; Abby L. Ferber

Call Number: 305.509 P961 2014 - (Book Display 2nd floor vending area)
Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male--as Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber, and a wide range of contributors make clear in this innovative and timely anthology. In an era when "diversity” is too often shorthand for "of color” and/or "female,” the personal and analytical essays in this collection explore the multifaceted nature of social location and consider how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability and religion interact to create nuanced layers of privilege and oppression. The individual essays are powerfully thought-provoking; taken together, they help guide students to a deep understanding of the dynamics of diversity and stratification, advantage and power. The third edition features ten new or newly-recast essays which will help students understand the intersectional nature of privilege and oppression. Enhanced pedagogy (including new discussion questions and "personal connections” activities at the conclusion of each section) encourages students to examine their own assumptions, beliefs, values, practices, and social locations--without becoming overwhelmed.
 
Call Number: 371.962 H848L 2008 - (Book Display 2nd floor vending area)
How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the burning questions he had as a teacher on the lessons affluent students are taught in schooling about their place in the world, their relationships with others, and who they are. the concept of privilege itself and the cultural and social processes in schooling that reinforce and regenerate privilege. Howard explores what educators, students and families at elite schools value most in education and how these values guide ways of knowing and doing that both create high standards for their educational programs and reinforce privilege as a collective identity. This book illustrates the ways that affluent students construct their own privilegea - not, fundamentally, as what they have, but, rather, as who they are.