Define White privilege and explain how it is invisible to those who benefit from it. Provide specific examples of privileges based on race
What will be an ideal response?
White privilege refers to the rights or immunities granted as a particular benefit or favor for being White. This advantage exists unconsciously and is often invisible to the White people who enjoy it. Being White or being successful in establishing a White identity carries with it distinct advantages. Among those that McIntosh (1988) identified were the following:
• Being considered financially reliable when using checks, credit cards, or cash
• Taking a job without having coworkers suspect it came about because of race
• Never having to speak for all the people of an individual's race
• Watching television or reading a newspaper and seeing people of one's own race widely represented
• Speaking effectively in a large group without being called a credit to a person's race
• Assuming that if legal or medical help is needed, a person's race will not work against him or her
Typically, White people do not see themselves as privileged in the way many African Americans and Latinos see themselves as disadvantaged. Privilege for many White people may be easy to exercise in one's life, but it is difficult to acknowledge.
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