Others dismiss it completely as something that doesn’t exist and never has. This blatant dismissal of the subject makes it even more of a problem. To understand it, we must define it. Our modern understanding of white privilege comes from an article written in 1987 by Peggy McIntosh, who was a professor of Women’s Studies at Wellesley College. She 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. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps,
Others dismiss it completely as something that doesn’t exist and never has. This blatant dismissal of the subject makes it even more of a problem. To understand it, we must define it. Our modern understanding of white privilege comes from an article written in 1987 by Peggy McIntosh, who was a professor of Women’s Studies at Wellesley College. She 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. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps,