Peggy McIntosh writes in “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html ), an essay in which she draws parallels between white and male privilege, that “Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to improve women's status in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended. …
[W]hites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun … to ask what it is like to have white privilege. (cont.)
2007-07-02
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