McIntosh, Peggy. “White Privilege: The Invisible Knapsack.” From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Stuart Greene and April Lidinsky. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016. 536-543. Print. …show more content…
Many of McIntosh’s examples of these advantages seem to be based off of personal assumptions in very controlled environments that do not reflect larger scale scenarios. She continues to create a list of fifty daily effects of her privilege in life that she perceives her African American coworkers, friends, and acquaintances to not have. A serious flaw in her work is that these are all based off of perception and not tangible facts or reason. On multiple micro levels her commentary can absolutely be construed as prejudice due to the level of unconfirmed assumptions she places against others based on race