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	'''White privilege''' is a species of [[privilege]]. It refers to the privilege that people (perceived as or identified as) "white" have relative to [[people of color]]. In particular, it refers to the ''privilege not to recognize one's own privilege'', as well as all the specific privileges bestowed by racism on white people.		'''White privilege''' is a species of [[privilege]]. It refers to the privilege that people (perceived as or identified as) "white" have relative to [[people of color]]. In particular, it refers to the ''privilege not to recognize one's own privilege'', as well as all the specific privileges bestowed by racism on white people. The concept of "white privilege" has become a core part of [[anti-racist]] theory and activism.

	Excerpt from Peggy McIntosh essay:		Excerpt from Peggy McIntosh essay:

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'''White privilege''' is a species of [[privilege]]. It refers to the privilege that people (perceived as or identified as) "white" have relative to [[people of color]]. In particular, it refers to the ''privilege not to recognize one's own privilege'', as well as all the specific privileges bestowed by racism on white people.

Excerpt from Peggy McIntosh essay:
: I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that 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, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools , and blank checks.

: Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. As we in women's studies work to reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white privilege must ask, "having described it, what will I do to lessen or end it?"

: After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of unacknowledged privilege, I understood that much of their oppressiveness was unconscious. Then I remembered the frequent charges from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why we are just seen as oppressive, even when we don't see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about its existence.

: My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will. My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow "them" to be more like "us."<ref>Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1990)</ref>

==Further reading==
* [[Peggy McIntosh]]

==References==
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