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Conclusion
The politics of privilege have made the important contribution of signaling how the
structures of oppression constitute who we are as persons. However, as the rituals of
confessingprivilegehaveevolvedinacademicandactivistcircles,theyhaveshiftedour
focus from building social movements for global transformation to individual self-im-
provement. Furthermore, they rest on a white supremacist/colonialist notion of a sub-
ject that can constitute itself over and against others through self-reflexivity. While try-
ing to keep the key insight made in activist/academic circles that personal and social
transformationareinterconnected,alternativeprojectshavedevelopedthatfocuslesson
privilege and more the structures that create privilege. These new models do not hold
the “answer,” because the genealogy of the politics of privilege also demonstrates that
our activist/intellectual projects of liberation must be constantly changing. Our imagin-
ations are limited by white supremacy and settler colonialism, so all ideas we have will
not be “perfect.” The ideas we develop today also do not have to be based on the com-
plete disavowal of what we did yesterday because what we did yesterday teaches what
we might do tomorrow. Thus, as we think not only beyond privilege, but beyond the
senseofselfthatclaimsprivilege,weopenourselvestonewpossibilities thatwecannot
imagine now for the future.
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