"Power, Privilege, & Difference", an evening with Allan G. Johnson, PhD

Dr. Johnson is a writer, teacher, and public speaker who has worked on issues of privilege, oppression, and social inequality since receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1972.  After almost 30 years of college teaching, he now devotes himself entirely to writing and public speaking. 

His goal is to present controversial, often difficult issues with gentle and compassionate clarity, in ways that people not only understand, but can relate to on a personal level.  He tries to offer a blend of life experience, humor, social reality, audience participation, and clear analysis that opens windows to new and productive ways of thinking and living in the world.  As a white male, he is especially concerned with reaching men and whites who may feel so uncomfortable with issues of privilege that they won't even talk about them.

He has worked with a variety of schools and organizations.  His books include The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise (1997), The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociological Language, 2e (2000), The gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, (Temple University Press, revised edition, 2005) and Privilege, Power, and Difference (McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 2005). His work has been translated into several languages and excerpted in numerous anthologies.

For more about the speaker, visit his website at http://www.agjohnson.us 

View a recent interview at Washington State University (2006). Realplayer Windows Media Player