Allan G. 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. He has almost 30 years of college teaching experience and has worked with a variety of schools and organizations. Johnson's 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, 1997) and Privilege, Power, and Difference (McGraw-Hill, 2001). His work has been translated into several languages and excerpted in numerous anthologies.

For more on Allan Johnson, visit his Web site at www.agjohnson.us.