LABRST 3E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Workplace Harassment, Femininity, White Privilege

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Constitutes an invisible package of unearned assets or advantages (mcintosh 2007, Anyone who is identified by others as belonging to a privileged group has privilege conferred upon them. Privilege remains even if the person is aware or resists because it is institutionalized. Invisible package of unearned assets or advantage (mcintosh 2007: anyone identified by others as belonging to a privileged group has privilege conferred upon them, privilege remains even if the person resists or is aware because it"s institutionalized. Whiteness is a location of structural advantage, of race privilege. A frame of reference: a place from which white people look at themselves, at others, and at society. Whiteness is intersectional and can be combined with age. White privilege definition: a set of interactions, relationships and experiences confirming unearned advantages on white people. White people taking their privilege and sustaining it as being normal which maintains privilege: ex.

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My response: I agree that being a part of the white society is like the concept of invisible privilege that has a familiar simile in that it is analogous to an invisible weightless knapsack. This metaphor emphasizes that white privilege, even though it may not be immediately obvious, has considerable advantages and opportunities that may include a lot of benefits and freedom to life. White people benefit from the structures and institutions in which they live. In the same culture, they were trained to be oblivious to their benefits. The undeserved advantages that were created by white people made people of color feel as if they were being oppressed. It is a norm and dominating racial power to be white in this society. For instance, if a white person comes into a new neighborhood, they are fairly certain that the bulk of their neighbors are the same color as them. A person has no idea of the advantages they have until they put themselves in the shoes of other people of color. Peggy McIntosh said that white advantages don't originate from a fault in a single human or from a single individual using them. It is via an inherent fault in the system that white privilege is created. If we wish to effect systemic change, it must occur inside the system. Systems have a major impact on individual behavior in the social world. We may all do our part to hasten the end. McIntosh maintains that white people may see racism in a different way when something gives them an advantage over others, not because it benefits white people. Systemic oppressions have interactive and internalized characteristics. Teaching racism as an act rather than an overall system that advantages the dominant group makes it difficult for white people to see themselves as racists. Embedded systems can't be eliminated, the recognition of them is important. Change won't come from just being dissatisfied with the system. McIntosh's example offers many benefits for comprehending white privilege. There are many advantages to understanding white privilege as the McIntosh example demonstrates. While it is true that 'whiteness' is simply about skin color, the various definitions of race reveal that it is really much more than that. The fact that McIntosh refers to white advantage rather than non-white disadvantage when framing the discussion of race reinforces the overall idea that race should be seen in terms of advantage rather than disadvantage.

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