White Scholarship Advantages

Along with privileges, come disadvantages. One might ask what disadvantages would ever come to a person being white in skin color. If you have gone to college or even filled out an application for a scholarship, you have probably face some type of discrimination against your skin color. Many scholarships are explicitly for people of Hispanic, Asian, or African American background. Two students might apply for scholarships with the same grades, background, and program of study and one might get a scholarship mainly because they are not white. In my high school, there were opportunities to obtain a scholarship if you applied. Quick catch, the applicant had to be a minority in the race group. As a person of the majority, no matter how well my grades were, I could not apply for the scholarship. This is one of a few disadvantages that whites experience. …show more content…
Matthew Desmond explains the concept of intersectionality and how being a white female is different than being a black female. Intersectionality is overlapping social identity, race, age, income, gender, and related systems and looking at it as one. As a woman, I can say that I have different privileges than males. As a white, middle-class, college-aged, women, I experience life differently than that of a black, working-class, middle-aged, woman. “What is racial domination” gives credit to Kimberle Crenshaw for the term intersectionality. Crenshaw explained the term as crisscrossing roads. Race, gender, class, and religion all combined when it comes to experiencing privileges and