Megan Michalec
EDU 2103 – 002
5 Sept. 2017
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” Reading Response This article was extremely thought provoking, especially for someone of white color. McIntosh brings forth themes that have implications on educators, but a few of the points might not have the implications in Texas as other states might. McIntosh’s main theme is the fact that there is white privilege even if many, if not all, white people realize they have it. This is due to the fact that “whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege” in themselves (McIntosh, 1988). By not recognizing it, there is an issue that has never been addressed in racism, and has been left to fester. She also brings up a list of fifty things that she states are the “daily effects of white privilege” that all white people have that they just do not think about (McIntosh, 1988). This list of fifty things of white privilege is very detailed and many of them have implications in the classroom. Some of these “daily …show more content…
Almost three decades have passed since this article was written, and many things have changed for, if not the whole nation, at least the state of Texas. Texas now has a higher population of Hispanic people in the state than whites. This has made whites a minority, leading to the fact that many of the state’s politicians are of Hispanic descent, and are seen on television and in the media. People of black skin color may still have this problem though. In Texas History courses in schools the Hispanic population is thoroughly discussed for the entire course and not until three-quarters of the way through. The same cannot be said about the African American population in schools. The state of Texas might be a little different than the rest of the nation in this regard, leading to the idea that the article is a tad outdated, but it also correct with relation to the population with black
EDU 2103 – 002
5 Sept. 2017
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” Reading Response This article was extremely thought provoking, especially for someone of white color. McIntosh brings forth themes that have implications on educators, but a few of the points might not have the implications in Texas as other states might. McIntosh’s main theme is the fact that there is white privilege even if many, if not all, white people realize they have it. This is due to the fact that “whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege” in themselves (McIntosh, 1988). By not recognizing it, there is an issue that has never been addressed in racism, and has been left to fester. She also brings up a list of fifty things that she states are the “daily effects of white privilege” that all white people have that they just do not think about (McIntosh, 1988). This list of fifty things of white privilege is very detailed and many of them have implications in the classroom. Some of these “daily …show more content…
Almost three decades have passed since this article was written, and many things have changed for, if not the whole nation, at least the state of Texas. Texas now has a higher population of Hispanic people in the state than whites. This has made whites a minority, leading to the fact that many of the state’s politicians are of Hispanic descent, and are seen on television and in the media. People of black skin color may still have this problem though. In Texas History courses in schools the Hispanic population is thoroughly discussed for the entire course and not until three-quarters of the way through. The same cannot be said about the African American population in schools. The state of Texas might be a little different than the rest of the nation in this regard, leading to the idea that the article is a tad outdated, but it also correct with relation to the population with black