#📓 #📄 #🟠 # White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Nov 07, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[ethics]] **Authors:** [[Peggy McIntosh]] **Citation:** McIntosh, P. (July/August 1989). White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. _Peace and Freedom_, 10–12. --- # Notes #### p. 10 - Racism puts others at a disadvantage, but white privilege puts me at an advantage. *([note on p.10](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=1))* > white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day ([McIntosh 1989:10](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=1)) #### p. 10 - Oppressiveness can be unconscious. *([note on p.10](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=1))* #### p. 11 - Acknowledging privilege means giving up the [[myth of meritocracy]]. *([note on p.11](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=2))* #### p. 11 - Some instances of privilege are things we would want for everyone while others are simply permissions to be ignorant, oblivious, arrogant and destructive. *([note on p.11](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=2))* Should work to spread positive advantages and reject negative advantages altogether. *([note on p.12](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=3))* #### p. 12 - It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish which type of unearned advantage has a greater effect than others. *([note on p.12](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=3))* There are many other categories of privilege besides race and sex. *([note on p.12](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=3))* #### p. 12 -Can't redesign social systems without first acknowledging systems of dominance. *([note on p.12](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=3))* ## My Questions & Thoughts > 21. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared. ([McIntosh 1989:11](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/LD7AZ34Y?page=2)) *Are there any ways, other than lack of diversity, that our Rotary club might make people of color feel isolated or unheard?* --- # Other References