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	Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global
		Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there is most likely a phenomenon of white 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.
		I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
	www.anarchistblackcross.org /org/wp/peggy.html (2453 words)

	The White Privilege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		White families, on average, have a net worth that is 11 times the net worth of fl families, according to a recent study; and this gap remains substantial even when only comparing families of like size, composition, education and income status.
		White preferences, the result of the normal workings of a racist society, can remain out of sight and out of mind, while the power of the state is turned against the paltry preferences meant to offset them.
		So long as those privileges remain firmly in place and the preferential treatment that flows from those privileges continues to work to the benefit of whites, all talk of ending affirmative action is not only premature but a slap in the face to those who have fought, and died, for equal opportunity.
	www.a1stoponlineshop.com /The_White_Privilege.html (3599 words)

	Robert W. Jensen--White Privilege
		That isn't meant as an insult to anyone, but is a simple observation that white privilege has meant that scores of second-rate white professors have slid through the system because their flaws were overlooked out of solidarity based on race, as well as on gender, class and ideology.
		And I was hired for a teaching position at the predominantly white University of Texas, which had a white president, in a college headed by a white dean and in a department with a white chairman that at the time had one non-white tenured professor.
		A first step for white people, I think, is to not be afraid to admit that we have benefited from white privilege.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~rjensen/freelance/whiteprivilege.htm (1599 words)

	STAR - White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
		White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
		I see a pattern running through the matrix of white privilege, a pattern of assumptions which were passed on to me as a white person.
		Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit in turn upon people of color.
	www.racismagainstindians.org /WhitePrivilege/InvisibleKnapsack.htm (2458 words)

	white privilege
		Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon with a life of its own, I realized that since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of white privilege that was similarly denied and protected, but alive and real in its effects.
		White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks.
		Skewed white psyches are an inseparable part of the picture, though I do nor want to confuse the kinds of damage done to the holders of special assets and to those who suffer the deficits.
	www.ou.edu /cas/hr/online/theoretical/articles/McIntosh-privilege.htm (5005 words)

	More thoughts...
		White privilege exists, but it can't be changed because it is natural for any group to favor its own, and besides, the worst manifestations of racism are over.
		White privilege exists because whites are inherently superior, and I am a weakling and a traitor for suggesting otherwise.
		However, as a member of a society--and especially as a privileged member of society--I have an obligation not simply to enjoy that privilege that comes with being white but to study and understand it, and work toward a more just world in which such unearned privilege is eliminated.
	www.dickshovel.com /priv2.html (1616 words)

	Here's what white privilege sounds like...
		It drove home the importance of confronting the dirty secret that we white people carry around with us every day: in a world of white privilege, some of what we have is unearned.
		That isn't meant as an insult to anyone, but it's a simple observation that white privilege has meant that scores of second-rate white professors have slid through the system because their flaws were overlooked out of solidarity based on race, as well as on gender, class and ideology.
		And I was hired for a teaching position by the predominantly white University of Texas, headed by a white president, in a college headed by a white dean and in a department with a white chairman that at the time had one nonwhite tenured professor.
	www.dickshovel.com /priv.html (1320 words)

	White Privilege and Law
		Audiences at presentations and lectures about privilege frequently ask, "What does privilege have to do with law?" The fact that any analysis of privilege has been omitted historically from legal reasoning does not mean it could not be a useful lens, perhaps more useful than discrimination, for viewing fact patterns.
		The Court rejected the argument that excluding whites from an all fl school paralleled excluding fls from a white school.
		Although the Court did not use the term privilege, it recognized its existence in the form of tangible factors, like faculty, courses, and library, and intangible factors such as faculty reputation, administration experience, alumni influence, school tradition, and prestige.
	academic.udayton.edu /race/01race/whiteness09.htm (1495 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Race to Our Credit
		Whites pay no price, in other words, for dismissing the claims of racism so regularly launched by persons of color, seeing as how the latter have no power to punish such disbelievers at the polls, or in the office suites, or in the schools in most cases.
		White reality is privileged at every turn, so that if whites say something is a problem, it is, and if whites insist it isn't, then it isn't.
		White men in Lexuses (or is it Lexi?) will not need to fear being pulled over by police on suspicion of transporting documents confirming their latest fiscal shenanigans.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2005-01/06wise.cfm (1429 words)

	White Privilege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of white privilege which was similarly denied and protected.
		As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something which 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.
		I have come to se white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious.
	stickyrice.itgo.com /whiteprivilege.html (2278 words)

	Shinin' the Lite on White Privilege
		The privileges of whiteness were first granted by the colonial ruling class only to the poor and servant class of Europeans.
		Colonial rulers used the existence of these privileges to convince poor white people that the little they had was due to their racial superiority, rather than to preferential treatment combined with hard work.
		White mob violence guaranteed the white privileges from the economy of internal colonialism.
	prisonactivist.org /cws/sharon.html (3283 words)

	Monkeyfist.com: Justice Entails Ending White Privilege
		One way to think about the benefits of exploitation is in terms of racialized social privilege -- patterns of social privilege and benefit, including exemptions from harm and burden, which accrue to racial groups at the expense of others.
		Poor and working class whites object to the idea of white privilege, pointing out that not every white person is wealthy or powerful.
		Membership in the privileged group, even for whites on the bottom economic rung, confers a social status and recognition which is denied to all but the most powerful members of oppressed groups.
	monkeyfist.com /articles/841 (715 words)

	Center for the Study of White American Culture - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Not an organization for white supremacists as some people might infer, we are instead a multiracial organization that looks at whiteness and white American culture.
		The most destructive consequence of guilt and one that is most likely to cause [counseling] practitioners and teachers to behave inappropriately and defensively is the threat it poses to self-esteem and to everyone's need to feel positive about his identity.
		White people have as great a need to feel that their racial identity is positive as do people-of-color.
	www.euroamerican.org (293 words)

	Cover story -- Essay: Owning unearned white privilege
		White privilege is the “upside” of discrimination, according to Peggy McIntosh of Wellesley College, who popularized the term with her 1988 groundbreaking paper that listed 46 advantages she realized she receives just for being born white.
		But this was a conference primarily for and about white people, urging us to acknowledge our white privilege, to construct a white identity that doesn’t include oppressing others, and to do something about the personal and institutional racism that still exists in our church and society.
		White folks are also victims of racism, but they’re in denial about it,” she said.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives2/2006b/052606/052606a.php (1904 words)

	Diversity Vs, White Privilege - Vol 15 No 2 - Rethinking Schools Online
		If the white students are allowed to think of the differing treatment only in terms of one particular instance, they can still minimize and individualize the phenomenon.
		But you can be a "good white" and still be in a school in which kids are being rank-ordered based on estimates of their learning ability and where lower tracks are predominantly kids of color and/or low income kids.
		You have argued that one can educate white teachers to death but that in the long run it's more important to increase the number of teachers of color so that schools do not remain institutions dominated by white people.
	www.rethinkingschools.org /archive/15_02/Int152.shtml (2994 words)

	WhitePrivilege.com » Defining “White Privilege”
		To invest white persons with a privilege or privileges; to grant to white persons a particular right or immunity; to benefit or favor specially white persons; to invest white persons with special honorable distinctions.
		Which is precisely what we white folks do (for the most part) when faced with claims by people of color that we enjoy social privilege by virtue of the social fact that we are taken to be white.
		To sum up, (1) white privilege should be defined carefully because it is contested; (2) that contestation is itself racialized, (3) which is what we should expect, since (4) socially invisible structures of oppression are more effective and enduring than socially visible ones.
	www.whiteprivilege.com /definition (1038 words)

	Confronting White Privilege - Volume 16 No. 4 - Summer 2002 - Rethinking Schools Online
		One white teacher's journey as she explores what it means to become engaged in the life-long struggle against racism.
		Like others who have come to question what it means to be white in this society, I have gone through various stages in my understanding, and cannot even begin to guess what stages await me. I have been defensive when confronted with the very concept of white privilege.
		It suddenly became clear that, for the most part, white people were in positions of power, which often included making decisions on behalf of people of color.
	www.rethinkingschools.org /archive/16_04/Conf164.shtml (1865 words)

	Understanding Whiteness, Recognizing Privilege
		Tim Wise is the Director of the newly-formed Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) in Nashville, Tennessee.
		WP is a free resource for antiracism education and activism; its editorial focus is analyzing and critically assessing racialized social privilege.
		The White Privilege Awareness Project educates students (and the greater community) about issues of race, racism and white privilege.
	whiteprivilege.hampshire.edu /resources.html (623 words)

	White Privilege Shapes The U.S. [Free Republic]
		That statement, I suggested to him, reveals the ultimate white privilege: the privilege to acknowledge an you have unearned privilege but ignore what it means.
		Whites are dominant in this country (right now) and for him to apply the classic Jewish/Catholic guilt to being white is so supremely stupid as to be laughable.
		He feels guilty for being white in the greatest country in the history of mankind, so he wants to use legislation to try to help him and other liberals deal with their cultural/racial guilt.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a377d2f8c5c9d.htm (9461 words)

	White Privilege--Databases & Internet Sites
		The term "white privilege" is not yet being used as a subject heading, but the phrase is commonly being used in language.
		Another strategy would be to use the keyword search and privilege>, truncating the words to include all endings of those words.*
		White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (by Peggy McIntosh): http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu?~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
	www.gcc.mass.edu /library/pathfinders/WPInternet.htm (668 words)

	White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
		The silences and denials surrounding privilege are the key political surrounding privilege are the key political tool here.
		"White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" (1988), by Peggy McIntosh; available for $10.00 from the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA 02181 The working paper contains a longer list of privileges.
	www.amptoons.com /blog/files/mcintosh.html (3042 words)

	STAR - Understanding White Privilege
		White privilege has a terrible sound to it.
		Almost any white person who hears the term feels their guard go up.
		No one asked for this privilege, almost no one would deny anyone else equal opportunities if it were within their power to offer them.
	www.racismagainstindians.org /WhitePrivilege/index.htm (219 words)

	Salon News \| Do white New Yorkers care about police brutality?
		I could not believe that here she was in the center of Harlem -- where white people are moving by the thousands -- still draped in the white privilege that allows her to not know what police brutality is, even as she stands in a community victimized by it.
		In today's winner-take-all, post-affirmative-action society, apparently privilege of every kind is to be grabbed, not shed, and it seems most whites have lost consciousness of the privilege their skin color represents.
		It's also clear that many whites in New York voted for Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and remain silent about his excesses, because of their fear of fl and Latino people, particularly the young.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2000/04/10/dorismond/index.html (769 words)

	WhitePrivilege.com
		On PRI’s “Speaking of Faith” today, there was a one hour program with Dr. David Hilfiker, a affluent white doctor who has been living in and practicing medicine in inner-city Washington DC for two decades now.
		The importance of his metaphor–and other poetry that conveys the loss of one’s family along side the recognition that help is not coming–is for white people to feel generations of this pain, to feel the enormity of history, the depth of our responsibility.
		In their absence rich white business owners are meeting with officials and setting policy agendas to determine what kind of city New Orleans is after the rebuilding begins and ends.
	www.whiteprivilege.com (3605 words)

	"White Privilege" Re-education
		On Saturday, March 27, the University hosted a workshop on “White Privilege” sponsored by the national anti-racist group Cultural Bridges.
		According to the workshop’s information packet, all white people benefit from “white privilege,” including “committed anti-racists.” Accordingly, all share responsibility for racist acts taken on their behalf, such as the Texas murder of James Byrd by white supremacists.
		In fact, had she made such bigoted claims, it is doubtful that the University would grant Cultural Bridges such generous accommodations in the Pendelton Room of the Union.
	www.umich.edu /~mrev/archives/1999/3-31-99/pg9.htm (729 words)

	White privilege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White privilege (sociology) -- social privileges many argue are enjoyed by people constructed as "white"
		White privilege (royalty) -- people allowed to wear white (protocol)
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_privilege (88 words)

	White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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 far as I can tell, my African American coworkers, friends, and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place and time of work cannot count on most of these conditions.
		I see a pattern running through the matrix of white privilege, a patter of assumptions that were passed on to me as a white person.
	seamonkey.ed.asu.edu /~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html (3033 words)

	Challenging White Supremacy Workshop :: Resources :: What is U.S. White Privilege?
		Sharon Martinas, 'What is White Privilege' (also contains graphic by Seth Newton: 'No one is free')
		Chris Crass, 'Beyond the Whiteness — Global Capitalism and White Supremacy: thoughts on movement building and anti-racist organizing'
		Sharon Martinas, 'Identifying White Privilege Behavior in Grass Roots Movements'
	www.cwsworkshop.org /resources/WhitePrivilege.html (273 words)

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