White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

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AfroHealer
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

 

AfroHealer

The following is from an email i had sent out to members on my, anti-racism and equality mailing list.
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"Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there are most likely a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of while privilege that was similarly denied and protected. 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. "

[url=http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html]http://seam...

Here is a link to a discussion i started on Rabble.ca about it.

White Priviledge Questions - read & learn
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=38&t=000567&p...

here are links to some to the discussion forum at [url=http://www.Rabble.ca/babble]http://www.Rabble.ca/babble[/url]

Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression 101
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=38&t=000596]h...

White Liberals Have White Privilege Too!
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=38&t=000582]h...

Racism - QueensU
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=38&t=000597]h...

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This is from leftnews.org

Noose discovery stuns Columbia University | CNN.com
[url=http://leftnews.org/archives/2007/10/10/11429/]http://leftnews.org/archi...

Michelle

There's already a thread on this, which you linked to in your first post, [url=http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=38&t=000567&p... The discussion can continue nicely there.

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