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Today, white privilege is often described through the lens of Peggy McIntosh's groundbreaking essay. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." Originally published in 1988, the essay helps readers recognize white privilege by making its effects personal and tangible. For many, white privilege was an invisible force that white people needed to recognize. It was being able to walk into a store and find that the main displays of shampoo and panty hose were catered toward your hair type and skin tone. It was being able to turn on the television and see people of your race widely represented. It was being able to move through life without being racially profiled or unfairly stereotyped. All true. This idea of white privilege as unseen, unconscious advantages took hold. It became easy for people to interpret McIntosh's version of white privilege-fairly or not-as mostly a matter of cosmetics and inconvenience. Those interpretations overshadow the origins of white privilege, as well as its present-day ability to influence systemic decisions. They overshadow the fact that white privilege is both a legacy and a cause of racism. And they overshadow the words of many people of color, who for decades recognized white privilege as the result of conscious acts and refused to separate it from historic inequities. In short, we've forgotten what white privilege really means-which is all of this, all at once. And if we stand behind the belief that recognizing white privilege is integral to the anti-bias work of white educators, we must offer a broader recognition. A recognition that does not silence the voices of those most affected by white privilege; a recognition that does not ignore where it comes from and why it has staying power. Driver Improv X e12 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X LJ What Is White Privil X A profile of the wor X + R R : -privilege-really Both racism and bias rely on what sociologists call racialization. This is the grouping of people based on perceived physical differences, such as skin tone. This arbitrary grouping of people, historically, fueled biases and became a tool for justifying the cruel treatment and discrimination of non-white people. Colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow laws were all sold with junk science and propaganda that claimed people of a certain "race" were fundamentally different from those of another-and they should be treated accordingly. And while not all white people participated directly in this mistreatment, their learned biases and their safety from such treatment led many to commit one of those most powerful actions: silence. And just like that, the trauma, displacement, cruel treatment and discrimination of people of color, inevitably, gave birth to white privilege. MAR 22 SO, WHAT IS WHITE PRIVILEGE? White privilege is-perhaps most notably in this era of uncivil discourse-a concept that has fallen victim to its own connotations. The two-word term packs a double whammy that inspires pushback. 1) The word white creates discomfort among those who are not used to being defined or described by their race. And 2) the word privilege, especially for poor and rural white people, sounds like a word that doesn't belong to them-like a word that suggests they have never struggled. This defensiveness derails the conversation, which means, unfortunately, that defining white privilege must often begin with defining what it's not. Otherwise, only the choir listens; the people you actually want to reach check out. White privilege is not the suggestion that white people have never struggled. Many white people do not enjoy the privilege Bookmark This Page relative affluence, such as food security. Many do not experience the privile access such as nearby hospitals. e File Edit View History Bookmarks Profiles Tab Window Help Wec Your Shopping Cart X My Bag | Aritzia US X Basic Driver Improv X 12 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X What Is White Priv X A profile of the wo About Topics Frameworks Educator Fund Podcasts LOG IN JOIN Q Classroom Resources Professional Development Magazine & Publications BUILD A LEARNING PLAN learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really Popular Bookmarks SP LEARNING LC FOR JUSTICE 1 ! WHAT IS WHITE PRIVILEGE, REALLY? Recognizing white privilege begins with truly understanding the term itself. F1 : F2 ARO MAR 22 80 000 D00 F3 FA BY CORY COLLINS ISSUE 60, FALL 2018 olo50 % $ 4 # 3 12 Q W A S tv MacBook Air F5 FG 6 & 27 F7 Bookmark This Pa 3 A Aa W DORX E R T Y U 8 * DII F8 DD F9 9 0 F10 - D F G H J K L Z X C V B N M P F11 E 11 + { 1 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X BbForum: MODULE 10 X A profile of the wo madonna.blackboard.com/webapps/discussionboard/do/forum?action=list_threads&course_id=_67586_1&forum_id=171539&nav=discussion_board&conf_id=_74803_... Syllabus Course Modules/Materials + R Communication Discussion Board Zoom Meetings My Grades Send Email Tools Learner Support Blackboard Help Madonna Library Student Resources Respondus/ZOOM Help Panopto Video FORUM DESCRIPTION Privilege is an advantage or entitlement. It is unearned and often unacknowledged. Privilege results from favor that exists within systems. It may result from race, gender, education and/or religion. Individuals who are privileged in one area may experience oppression in others (Rothman, 2014). Please note that this topic and these exercises are not meant to make any feel "guilty" of their own privilege, but to better inform you so that you may become advocates for those who experience social injustices. For this module, you may choose one of the of the options. Please do not use the prompts in your essay. You may cite the sources included, but please make sure to follow the scoring guide for these assignments and use the terms from the chapter and utilize in-text citations. Option #1: Those of you who are white are encouraged to explore this option. Often, white people misunderstand the term "privilege" to think in terms only of economic status. One might say, "but I'm not privileged." When we use the term priviledge in this context, it is not rooted in economics solely. It means that there are certain social challenges that white people are much less likely to experience. For example, "driving while black" (DWB) is a phenomenon of racial profiling of African-American drivers which implies that a motorist may be stopped by a police officer largely because of racial bias rather than any apparent violation of traffic law. Blacks were 63 percent more likely to be stopped even though, as a whole, they drive 16 percent less. Taking into account less time on the road, blacks were about 95 percent more likely to be stopped (University of South Carolina, 2020). White drivers are priviledged to not be profiled while driving Driving While Black There are many other examples of issues that people of color face that whie people do not. Please take a few minutes to review one or all the items below: (Article): What is White Privilege Really? Teaching Tolerance https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really. (Article): White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf (Video): What is Privilege? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AMhtHPKNK Then, after reading Chapter 6 and reviewing the videos, discuss this overarching questions: How can talking about whiteness help deconstruct "the power of normal" discussed in "What is White Privilege, Really?" 0 If the people in these videos had discussed their whiteness from a young age, consider how their responses might have changed. Write for a few minutes about your own experience with whiteness and white privilege, and how that can inform the ways you handle topics of race in the future. SC F1 O @ O F2 # 80 F3 $ 89 000 FA MAR 22 % F5 tv MacBook Air > F6 & @ F7 M NA A Aa W A DOCX E DII DD D F8 F9 F10 F11 GE + F12 Window Help Wed Mar 22 5:17 PM ic Driver Improv 12 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X LFJ What Is White Privil X * A profile of the wor x + e-privilege-really R RACISM VS. WHITE PRIVILEGE Having white privilege and recognizing it is not racist. But white privilege exists because of historic, enduring racism and biases. Therefore, defining white privilege also requires finding working definitions of racism and bias. So, what is racism? One helpful definition comes from Matthew Clair and Jeffrey S. Denis's "Sociology on Racism." They define racism as "individual- and group-level processes and structures that are implicated in the reproduction of racial inequality." Systemic racism happens when these structures or processes are carried out by groups with power, such as governments, businesses or schools. Racism differs from bias, which is a conscious or unconscious prejudice against an individual or group based on their identity. Basically, racial bias is a belief. Racism is what happens when that belief translates into action. For example, a person might unconsciously or consciously believe that people of color are more likely to commit crime or be dangerous. That's a bias. A person might become anxious if they perceive a Black person is angry. That stems from a bias. These biases can become racism through a number of actions ranging in severity, and ranging from individual- to group-level responses: A person crosses the street to avoid walking next to a group of young Black men. A person calls 911 to report the presence of a person of color who is otherwise behaving lawfully. A police officer shoots an unarmed person of color because he "fe A jury finds a person of color guilty of a violent crime despite sc Bookmark This Page Do MAR 22 tv MacBook Air F5 F6 % 205 6 & T @ 3 A Aa W DOCK F8 DD F9 AA DII F7 Y U * ( 8 9 0 F10 0 P (11) E F11 F12 + // delete Today, white privilege is often described through the lens of Peggy McIntosh's groundbreaking essay. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." Originally published in 1988, the essay helps readers recognize white privilege by making its effects personal and tangible. For many, white privilege was an invisible force that white people needed to recognize. It was being able to walk into a store and find that the main displays of shampoo and panty hose were catered toward your hair type and skin tone. It was being able to turn on the television and see people of your race widely represented. It was being able to move through life without being racially profiled or unfairly stereotyped. All true. This idea of white privilege as unseen, unconscious advantages took hold. It became easy for people to interpret McIntosh's version of white privilege-fairly or not-as mostly a matter of cosmetics and inconvenience. Those interpretations overshadow the origins of white privilege, as well as its present-day ability to influence systemic decisions. They overshadow the fact that white privilege is both a legacy and a cause of racism. And they overshadow the words of many people of color, who for decades recognized white privilege as the result of conscious acts and refused to separate it from historic inequities. In short, we've forgotten what white privilege really means-which is all of this, all at once. And if we stand behind the belief that recognizing white privilege is integral to the anti-bias work of white educators, we must offer a broader recognition. A recognition that does not silence the voices of those most affected by white privilege; a recognition that does not ignore where it comes from and why it has staying power. Driver Improv X e12 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X LJ What Is White Privil X A profile of the wor X + R R : -privilege-really Both racism and bias rely on what sociologists call racialization. This is the grouping of people based on perceived physical differences, such as skin tone. This arbitrary grouping of people, historically, fueled biases and became a tool for justifying the cruel treatment and discrimination of non-white people. Colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow laws were all sold with junk science and propaganda that claimed people of a certain "race" were fundamentally different from those of another-and they should be treated accordingly. And while not all white people participated directly in this mistreatment, their learned biases and their safety from such treatment led many to commit one of those most powerful actions: silence. And just like that, the trauma, displacement, cruel treatment and discrimination of people of color, inevitably, gave birth to white privilege. MAR 22 SO, WHAT IS WHITE PRIVILEGE? White privilege is-perhaps most notably in this era of uncivil discourse-a concept that has fallen victim to its own connotations. The two-word term packs a double whammy that inspires pushback. 1) The word white creates discomfort among those who are not used to being defined or described by their race. And 2) the word privilege, especially for poor and rural white people, sounds like a word that doesn't belong to them-like a word that suggests they have never struggled. This defensiveness derails the conversation, which means, unfortunately, that defining white privilege must often begin with defining what it's not. Otherwise, only the choir listens; the people you actually want to reach check out. White privilege is not the suggestion that white people have never struggled. Many white people do not enjoy the privilege Bookmark This Page relative affluence, such as food security. Many do not experience the privile access such as nearby hospitals. e File Edit View History Bookmarks Profiles Tab Window Help Wec Your Shopping Cart X My Bag | Aritzia US X Basic Driver Improv X 12 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X What Is White Priv X A profile of the wo About Topics Frameworks Educator Fund Podcasts LOG IN JOIN Q Classroom Resources Professional Development Magazine & Publications BUILD A LEARNING PLAN learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really Popular Bookmarks SP LEARNING LC FOR JUSTICE 1 ! WHAT IS WHITE PRIVILEGE, REALLY? Recognizing white privilege begins with truly understanding the term itself. F1 : F2 ARO MAR 22 80 000 D00 F3 FA BY CORY COLLINS ISSUE 60, FALL 2018 olo50 % $ 4 # 3 12 Q W A S tv MacBook Air F5 FG 6 & 27 F7 Bookmark This Pa 3 A Aa W DORX E R T Y U 8 * DII F8 DD F9 9 0 F10 - D F G H J K L Z X C V B N M P F11 E 11 + { 1 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X BbForum: MODULE 10 X A profile of the wo madonna.blackboard.com/webapps/discussionboard/do/forum?action=list_threads&course_id=_67586_1&forum_id=171539&nav=discussion_board&conf_id=_74803_... Syllabus Course Modules/Materials + R Communication Discussion Board Zoom Meetings My Grades Send Email Tools Learner Support Blackboard Help Madonna Library Student Resources Respondus/ZOOM Help Panopto Video FORUM DESCRIPTION Privilege is an advantage or entitlement. It is unearned and often unacknowledged. Privilege results from favor that exists within systems. It may result from race, gender, education and/or religion. Individuals who are privileged in one area may experience oppression in others (Rothman, 2014). Please note that this topic and these exercises are not meant to make any feel "guilty" of their own privilege, but to better inform you so that you may become advocates for those who experience social injustices. For this module, you may choose one of the of the options. Please do not use the prompts in your essay. You may cite the sources included, but please make sure to follow the scoring guide for these assignments and use the terms from the chapter and utilize in-text citations. Option #1: Those of you who are white are encouraged to explore this option. Often, white people misunderstand the term "privilege" to think in terms only of economic status. One might say, "but I'm not privileged." When we use the term priviledge in this context, it is not rooted in economics solely. It means that there are certain social challenges that white people are much less likely to experience. For example, "driving while black" (DWB) is a phenomenon of racial profiling of African-American drivers which implies that a motorist may be stopped by a police officer largely because of racial bias rather than any apparent violation of traffic law. Blacks were 63 percent more likely to be stopped even though, as a whole, they drive 16 percent less. Taking into account less time on the road, blacks were about 95 percent more likely to be stopped (University of South Carolina, 2020). White drivers are priviledged to not be profiled while driving Driving While Black There are many other examples of issues that people of color face that whie people do not. Please take a few minutes to review one or all the items below: (Article): What is White Privilege Really? Teaching Tolerance https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really. (Article): White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf (Video): What is Privilege? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AMhtHPKNK Then, after reading Chapter 6 and reviewing the videos, discuss this overarching questions: How can talking about whiteness help deconstruct "the power of normal" discussed in "What is White Privilege, Really?" 0 If the people in these videos had discussed their whiteness from a young age, consider how their responses might have changed. Write for a few minutes about your own experience with whiteness and white privilege, and how that can inform the ways you handle topics of race in the future. SC F1 O @ O F2 # 80 F3 $ 89 000 FA MAR 22 % F5 tv MacBook Air > F6 & @ F7 M NA A Aa W A DOCX E DII DD D F8 F9 F10 F11 GE + F12 Window Help Wed Mar 22 5:17 PM ic Driver Improv 12 Michigan Departme X Online Course View X LFJ What Is White Privil X * A profile of the wor x + e-privilege-really R RACISM VS. WHITE PRIVILEGE Having white privilege and recognizing it is not racist. But white privilege exists because of historic, enduring racism and biases. Therefore, defining white privilege also requires finding working definitions of racism and bias. So, what is racism? One helpful definition comes from Matthew Clair and Jeffrey S. Denis's "Sociology on Racism." They define racism as "individual- and group-level processes and structures that are implicated in the reproduction of racial inequality." Systemic racism happens when these structures or processes are carried out by groups with power, such as governments, businesses or schools. Racism differs from bias, which is a conscious or unconscious prejudice against an individual or group based on their identity. Basically, racial bias is a belief. Racism is what happens when that belief translates into action. For example, a person might unconsciously or consciously believe that people of color are more likely to commit crime or be dangerous. That's a bias. A person might become anxious if they perceive a Black person is angry. That stems from a bias. These biases can become racism through a number of actions ranging in severity, and ranging from individual- to group-level responses: A person crosses the street to avoid walking next to a group of young Black men. A person calls 911 to report the presence of a person of color who is otherwise behaving lawfully. A police officer shoots an unarmed person of color because he "fe A jury finds a person of color guilty of a violent crime despite sc Bookmark This Page Do MAR 22 tv MacBook Air F5 F6 % 205 6 & T @ 3 A Aa W DOCK F8 DD F9 AA DII F7 Y U * ( 8 9 0 F10 0 P (11) E F11 F12 + // delete