Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
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. - Peggy Mcintosh
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.
- Peggy Mcintosh
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. - Peggy Mcintosh
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are whit… - Peggy Mcintosh
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are whit…
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… - Peggy Mcintosh
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…
If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones. - Peggy Mcintosh
If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
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… - Peggy Mcintosh
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…
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. - Peggy Mcintosh
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States … - Peggy Mcintosh
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… - Peggy Mcintosh
one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred domina…
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