Somebodies and Nobodies
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Somebodies and Nobodies

Overcoming the Abuse of Rank

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Somebodies and Nobodies

Overcoming the Abuse of Rank

About this book

When discrimination is race-based, we call it racism; when it’s gender-based, we call it sexism. Somebodies and Nobodies introduces rank-based discrimination—or "rankism"—a form of injustice that everyone knows, but no one sees. It explains our reluctance to confront rankism, shows where analyses based on identity fall short and, using dozens of examples, traces many forms of injustice and unfairness to rankism.

". . . a wonderful and tremendously important book on the ‘ism’ that is far more encompassing than racism, sexism or ageism. ‘Rankism’ must be our prime target from now on in. Viva Fuller!"—Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Working

Robert Fuller served as president of Oberlin College and subsequently worked internationally as a "citizen diplomat." He lives in Berkeley, California.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Note to the Reader
  3. 1. A Disorder without a Name
  4. 2. Uses and Abuses of Rank
  5. 3. The Toll of Rank Abuse
  6. 4. The Hunger for Recognition
  7. 5. The Somebody Mystique
  8. 6. Deconstructing the Somebody Mystique
  9. 7. The Quest for Dignity
  10. 8. The Anatomy of Disrespect
  11. 9. The Nobody Revolution: Overcoming Rankism
  12. Postscript
  13. Epilogue
  14. Elegy for Nobodies
  15. Epitaph for Nobodies
  16. Related Readings
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Index
  19. About the Author