Sensoy and DiAngelo, Is Everyone Really Equal?, 97.ġ6. Ella Alexander, “Understanding White Privilege: 20 Everyday Examples,” Harper’s Bazaar, January 7, 2021. Chauncey DeVega, “Anti-Racist Activist Tim Wise: Here’s What I’d Tell the Covington Catholic Boys,” Salon, January 28, 2019. Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo, Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education, 2nd ed. Rothenberg, ed., White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, 4th ed. Government Segregated America,” NPR, May 3, 2017. Terry Gross, “A ‘Forgotten History’ of How the U.S. McIntosh, “Some Notes for Facilitators.” McIntosh expressed doubts about whether her use of the word “privilege” was appropriate, writing that “the word ‘privilege’ now seems to me misleading.” Yet she used it anyway.ġ0. Peggy McIntosh, “Some Notes for Facilitators on Presenting My White Privilege Papers,” National SEED Project, 2010. Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies,” 1988. Andrew O’Hehir, “White Privilege: An Insidious Virus That’s Eating America from Within,” Salon, August 23, 2014. “Talking about Race and Privilege: Lesson Plan for Middle and High School Students,” National Association of School Psychologists, 2016. Jacob Bennett, “White Privilege: A History of the Concept,” Georgia State University, April 11, 2012.

Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peace and Freedom, July/August 1989.

On January 15, 2019, SiriusXM Patriot tweeted, Patriot Host mistakenly accused for his ‘White Privilege’ by Analyst See. In many schools and in most public discussions of race, you can expect to hear about white privilege.ġ. Phil devoted an entire episode of his show to it. It’s frequently used on social media and by conventional news outlets. By the early 2010s, the notion of “white privilege” had broken into the mainstream. 3 The annual White Privilege Conference started in 2000. Education professors wrote articles on strategies for teaching the theory of white privilege to students. Many scholarly journals started using the term, as it gradually spread throughout academia, from psychology to sociology to anthropology. Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh popularized the term in her 1989 essay “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” 2 The influence of this essay is difficult to overstate. Martin obviously misused the phrase “white privilege.” But does her mistake reveal a deeper problem with the idea? What is white privilege? Webb: Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should’ve been better prepped. Martin: David, by virtue of being a white male, you have white privilege.

Webb: How do I have the privilege of white privilege? Martin: Well, David, you know that’s a whole ’nother long conversation about white privilege of things that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don’t have the privilege of.

I considered my qualifications the issue. Webb: I’ve across different parts of the media world, done the work so that I’m qualified to be in each one. On his SiriusXM Radio show in 2019, David Webb spoke with civil rights attorney and CNN legal analyst Areva Martin.

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