“I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.” ThinkingWhiteTaughtMalesPrivilegeWhite PrivilegeMale Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh
“It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.” PeopleStatesHandsSeemsActionChoicesWhiteUnitedNumbersUnited StatesGroupsRacismAdvantageDemocraticMalesAvailableMythPropsWhite PrivilegeSmall NumbersMeritocracy Author:Peggy McIntosh
“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.” PeopleIfsGivingCountryLife IsCertainWhiteVirtueDoorsSubjectsGiving UpRacismPressurePrivilegeMythElusiveWhite PrivilegeFugitiveMeritocracyFree Country Author:Peggy McIntosh
“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.” WhiteSpecialClothesToolsPrivilegeInvisibleChecksMapsBlankProvisionPassportsVisaWhite PrivilegeBlank Check Author:Peggy McIntosh
“As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.” PersonsWhiteTaughtRacismAdvantageAspectPrivilegeI RealizedDisadvantagesWhite Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh
“White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.” PeopleChoicesWhiteBenefitsConsciousAdvantageExperiencePrivilegeInequalityEqual RightsEntitlementEqual OpportunityWhite Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh
