Homework: Diversity Exploration
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
After you have read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, ask yourself the following questions and single space type your responses. Overtly bold type the prompts with your responses following in regular type. You can be brief, but your responses should be in complete sentences. I want to know what you think, not word-for-word Google responses.
a) What is white privilege?
b) What is unearned advantage?
c) What is conferred dominance?
d) How do people deny that systems of dominance exist?
e) How is white advantage strongly enculturated?
f) What is meant by the myth of meritocracy?
g) How might someone with white privilege use his or her unearned advantage for the betterment of all and not just his/her own cohorts? What ideas do you have about how people who are born "white" can use arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems?
Article: One Easy Thing All White People Could Do That Would Make The World A Better Place by Rafael Casal.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.