As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of i….

It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States ….

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred domina….

For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the m….

White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are whit….

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones..

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying th….

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege..

I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race..

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate..

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks..

Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because of a….

Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is….

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.