Title: 
Headings: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack By Peggy McIntosh
White
 
Privilege:
 
Unpacking
 
the
 
Invisible
 
Knapsack
By
 
Peggy
 
McIntosh

Content: It
 
is
 
suggested
 
that
 
participants
 
read
 
the
 
article
 
and
 
discuss
 
it. Participants
 
can
 
then
 
write
 
a
 
list
of
 
additional
 
ways
 
in
 
which
 
whites
 
are
 
privileged
 
in
 
their
 
own
 
school
 
and
 
community
 
setting. Or
participants
 
can
 
be
 
asked
 
to
 
keep
 
a
 
diary
 
for
 
the
 
following
 
week
 
of
 
white
 
privilege
 
that
 
they
 
notice
 
(and
 
in
some
 
cases
 
challenge)
 
in
 
their
 
daily
 
lives. These
 
can
 
be
 
shared
 
and
 
discussed
 
the
 
following
 
week. 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
 
over
 
privileged,
 
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,
 
which
amount
 
to
 
taboos,
 
surround
 
the
 
subject
 
of
 
advantages,
 
which
 
men
 
gain
 
from
 
women’s
 
disadvantages. These
 
denials
 
protect
 
male
 
privilege
 
from
 
being
 
fully
 
acknowledged,
 
lessened
 
or
 
ended. Thinking
 
through
 
unacknowledged
 
male
 
privilege
 
as
 
a
 
phenomenon,
 
I
 
realized
 
that
 
since
hierarchies
 
in
 
our
 
society
 
are
 
interlocking,
 
there
 
was
 
most
 
likely
 
a
 
phenomenon
 
of
 
white
 
privilege,
which
 
was
 
similarly
 
denied
 
and
 
protected. As
 
a
 
white
 
person,
 
I
 
realized
 
I
 
had
 
been
 
taught
 
about
racism
 
as
 
something
 
which
 
puts
 
others
 
at
 
a
 
disadvantage,
 
but
 
had
 
been
 
taught
 
not
 
to
 
see
 
one
 
of
 
its
corollary
 
aspects,
 
white
 
privilege
 
which
 
puts
 
me
 
at
 
an
 
advantage.