Speaker Attempts to Break Racial Barriers
Blog: Athens MidDay
Joyelle Freeman
April 15, 2008
Peggy McIntosh, senior research scientist and associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, spoke on the campus of Ohio University on April 14, 2008, on the topic of white privilege. Focusing on her article "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," McIntosh addressed the issue of the unearned privilege that white people in this society carry, stating, "It is an open question whether we will choose to use an unearned
advantage to weaken hidden systems of advantage, and whether we will
use any of our arbitrarily-awarded power to try to reconstruct power
systems on a broader base."
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