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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (1989) 1
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In 1989, McIntosh published “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” an excerpt of her 1988 paper “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies.” The “Knapsack” explores the layers of denial that protect white privilege, twenty-six ordinary and daily examples of white privilege, and the complex, interlocking nature of privilege. McIntosh distinguishes between conditions that systematically over-empower certain groups to dominate over other groups and conditions that should be the norm in a just society.
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Metadata
- Authors
- McIntosh, P.
- Venue
- On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2019-07-04
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 29-34
- OpenAlex
- W1834297441
- Cited by
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- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1030.25
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- book chapter
- Language
- en
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