Jasmine Nixon Mrs. McCoy-Wilson Comp. and Rhetoric 1101 03/13/2013 Rhetorical Response 2 Peggy McIntosh’s article‚ “White Privileges: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (1998)‚ asserts that males and white people from birth have certain privileges‚ earned strengths‚ and unearned power. McIntosh supports this claim by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege she witnesses. McIntosh purpose is to point out the invisible systems of male and white privilege in order to inform
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Zhanhong Fang Professor Courtney Stanton English Composition 101 November 1‚ 2014 Unpacking our Knapsacks Author Peggy McIntosh shows an idea of white people having more privileges and advantages which make them become the dominant group in society. She uses a metaphor to describe these privileges and advantages as the “invisible knapsack” in her article “White Privilege: The Invisible Knapsack.” McIntosh concentrates on the white people’s unconsciousness of the effects of their privileges and
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The definition of White privilege in my eyes would be that privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to‚ rather than because of anything they’ve done or failed to do. Below I selected a few privileges that I found I could relate to and one of them that I could not connect to. For starters‚ I believe to some degree‚ most American’s have a lot of these privileges in their everyday lives. With that being said for me personally
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In the novel‚ The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith conflict is an ever present factor and although much of this conflict is negative‚ Keneally has incorporated positive outcomes to some of this conflict in this story. This fictional recount of true events show us the social‚ interpersonal‚ inner and racial conflict between and within the whites and the indigenous people of australia in the 1900s. When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman‚ the backlash from both Jimmie’s community and the white society
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Education 305 White Privilege This week’s reading by Peggy McIntosh’s‚ White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack really resonated with me. It forced me to think about how being white grants a person a set of positive privileges that others don’t have. Because of this‚ I felt compelled to write a response. I will start with her argument‚ make a comparison to another reading‚ provide the context for her article‚ and lastly issue some of my own opinions on the topic. Argument McIntosh’s
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In essence‚ it’s a simple concept: white privilege refers to the both minor and significant advantages that white people have in today’s American society. To be honest reading this article was a huge eye opener for me. I still struggle with both believing that white privilege exists and figuring out how to get rid of it. I have never felt that I was privileged to be white‚ however‚ I suppose that could be because as McIntosh states “whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege”
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Allan Lima English 1A Mr Richard Margolis 02/25/15 The essay opens up with Mrs McIntosh explaining the self-analyse that she did to realize about the real existence of a white privilege and male privilege. The author initiated an analytical thinking through an ordinary job situation. This is very hard thing to do‚ most of the people get stuck into their routine‚ and so they can’t realize the deep issues around themselves. In fact‚ the author figured out that white people are taught during their
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Robert Strode In Peggy McIntosh’s article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible backpack” we see detailed examples of how white people are extremely privileged in ways that people of other races may never understand. Even though sometimes we do not realize this is happening it has been seen to be true in many things throughout history and in the world today. One of the parts of this article that caught my eye and made me think a bit was the list of 26 white privileges that McIntosh wrote about
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Symbolic Interaction Theory --> 1) the way we act towards ppl is based on the meanings we have for them. 2) The meanings we have for these ppl come from our interactions we have with them meanings are shaped and reshaped on the interpretation of our interactions we have with them. Creating who we are: --> we develop our identity based on our interactions with others. In-groups --> we are concerned about their welfare. help discipline our behavior. You present your social
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According to the article‚ “What is Whiteness?” by the author and historian Nell Irvin Painter‚ she stated that “…new waves of poor Eastern and Southern European immigrants arrived [to the United States]‚ inspiring new racial classifications: the “Northern Italian” race‚ the “Southern Italian” race‚ the “Eastern European Hebrew” race‚ and so on… But‚ like the Irish before them‚ the Italians and Jews and Greeks were classified as inferior white races.” Then‚ almost a century after‚ “By the 1940s anthropologists
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