White Privilege In America Summary

In the essay, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh, the author questions and discusses white privilege and how it is an invisible package of earned assets. She also talks about how white privilege affects her daily life and compares it to forms of oppression.

In “Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person” by Gina Crosley-Corcoran. We learn about the authors struggle growing up poor. Crosley says that she was so poor growing up, it’s “the type of poor that people don’t want to believe still exists in the country.” Crosley grew up in northern-Illinois and she was truly impoverished growing up. At 12, Crosley was making cup noodles in a coffee maker with water she fetched from public bathrooms. She lived in a camper that had no running water or heat.

This article was written by Peggy McIntosh. She talks about how white privilege is often times overlooked and not recognized by whites themselves. We take the privileges we get for granted and most times don’t realize that a lot of the things we are able to do aren’t just handed to other people, especially people of color. This article also explains that these privileges can sometimes have a positive effect or a negative one. McIntosh explains how now that we can recognize what white privilege is, we can try to spread the positive types of advantages and work to get rid of the negative ones.

Jean demonstrates the term White Privilege by becoming harsher on her maid, Maria, after encountering an unfortunate incident with two black men by complaining on how she handled the chores around the house. She also emphasizes on the importance of her family's safety from the black community by checking and enhancing their security system. Not to mention, she holds a high social status in the economy due to her husband being a governor which may be a partial reason to her racist behaviour of being apart from the lower-classed black people. Moreover, she represents a selective perception similar to the white producer I mentioned earlier with Cameron when she assumed Daniel as part of gangbangers when in contradictory, Daniel is a hardworking father only wanting for his family to live a great lifestyle.

OBJECT SOURCE: Francis Kendall is a book writer and does speeches about white privilege. She gets right into it and defines what white privilege means to her. She then begins to discuss major and minor factors of white privilege involving the purposeful construction of white privilege (history), privilege from conception, taking racism seriously, and the list goes on. This source is significant due to the details and main points regarding white privilege all around.

Along with racism’s effect on the economic status of communities, it also impacts African Americans in other aspects of the financial realm. As Peggy McIntosh explains in her essay, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack,” she, as a white person, “can count on [her] skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability” (McIntosh). Thus, institutionalized racism still makes it more difficult for Blacks to become financially stable compared to whites. According the Pew Research Center, the net worth of a white person was 13 times greater than that of a Black person in 2013, even though slavery had been abolished nearby 150 years prior (Fry, Kochlar). Likewise, in 1970 about 4 percent of whites and 62 percent of Blacks

Growing up in the United States, racism is an issue one cannot help but hear about at one point or another. Racial inequality and discrimination is a topic that comes up every February with Black History Month, and is often talked about in high school history classes around the country. But that is what it is considered to the majority of people: history. Most students are taught that, while there are still and will always be individual cases of racial discrimination and racism, nationally the problem ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. People of color, however, will often tell you differently. At least that is what they told Tim Wise,

Alice McIntyre talks about how whites view racism in many different examples and stories of white talk. McIntyre defines white talk throughout the reading, “Talk that serves to insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collective roles in the perpetuation of racism. It is a result of whites talking uncritically with/to other whites all the while, resisting critique and massaging each other’s racist attitude, beliefs, and actions” (McIntyre, 45-46). McIntyre talks about the themes that were discussions of white talk: “(1) How the participants constructed differences from “the Other,” (2) how they reconstructed myths about white and people of color, and (3) how they privileged their own feelings and affect over the lived

White privilege is an apparent part our society, well to me at least.The fact that a white person can kill a black male for simply getting Skittles and Arizona, or selling non taxed cigarettes, or playing loud music,looking threatening and so on without consequences for their consequences is white privilege. White privilege is not having to be followed around a boutique or high class store because of the stereotype of being poor and a criminal. White teenagers can go out at night in large groups without being disturbed. White privilege is an advantage that white people are unaware they have.They can not see that the way in which they live is exclusive to their race. They have special assets that colored people do not. In White Privilege-

White privilege has decreased over the past couple years due to further understanding of racial differences. However, I believe it does still exist within our society. Many times it goes unnoticed by whites because they have the upper hand in the situation. One privilege I have noticed I have as a white member of society is credibility in educational situations.

In the year of 2015 A.D., white people always wanted to come up with ways how can they further their benefits of their white privileges in America. They wanted more benefits to fulfill their greed, so of course they continued on seeing how can they make it worse for people of color— especially for the black people. So, one day they made a banking system and use a card to get any job, sort of education without trying, not to be stereotyped, never have to worry about becoming the next hash tag, being attacked and killed by the law enforcement, never having to enforce your children about the terrible, cruel realities of systematic racism. The list goes on, how white privileges exists.

In today 's world, perhaps one of the largest debates among human beings is privilege and gender equality. In both Macklemore’s “White privilege II”, and Michael Kimmel’s “Why Gender Equality is Good for Everyone, Men Included”, the authors evidently explained what white privileges are, how white privilege effects individuals of different race, and how gender equality can benefit men and women in their household and in the workplace. In Macklemore’s song he attempted to understand his place in black culture, specifically related to hip-hop music and Black Lives Matter protests. While in Michael Kimmel’s speech he attempted to explain white privilege and the benefits of gender equality for women as well as men by using stories of past experiences. When critically analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of both author’s tones, evidence, and overall strength of the body of work, I am boldly convinced that Michael Kimmel’s speech is essentially the superior of the two authors. Though Macklemore’s song was relevant and had great connections to our everyday life, the author was very aggressive and lacked any source of credible evidence to his observations. Michael Kimmel’s speech did exhibit evidence, but it was often questionable. However, he does displayed great tone by appealing to humor, was very entertaining by keeping his audience eagerly intact, and communicated relevant stories

After reading this article I’ve realized that it is true, I for one now know that even though I may not always see it, but whites really do have more privileges and are more free than colored people in America. I love to shop, and I even work at a mall but because I am white I’ve never really thought about how colored people feel in a mall just because I have never seen it nor have I ever been racially profiled. One of the daily effects of white privileges in the article was “I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.” I’ve never thought that going to the mall for some people could be hard and that is just a prime example that I don’t really see what is really going on around me because

Many white Americans are living with the fear that they didn't really deserve their success, and that maybe luck and privilege had more to do with it, than brains and hard work. There are numerous reasons for the widespread discrimination at all levels, but the main reason for the existence of discrimination is a privilege to certain groups of people, and widespread social prejudice towards certain groups of people. Differences between people have always existed, but they gain in importance only when are different importance given to certain differences, so it creates privileges. People who are privileged in one society are often not aware of their privilege. It is very easy to be oblivious to the privilege. The problem of discrimination

Peggy McIntosh, chapter on “White Privilege, color, and crime,” encourages readers to think about the world in the framework of race, class, and gender on a “White privilege” perspective. McIntosh