Assignment task: Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege"
a. Peggy McIntosh describes white privilege as "an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious." (p. 10) What does she mean by this statement?
b. What are some of the examples McIntosh lists as taken for granted privileges she has access to because she is white in America?
c. From McIntosh's perspective, why are we taught to view racism only as individual acts of meanness by whites, rather than as invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on European Americans? (p. 12)
d. Does the video True Colors support McIntosh's analysis? Do you find her argument persuasive? Why or why not?