Thursday, November 19, 2009

26 Days of Privilege

Last week I had the opportunity to teach about white privilege in the course I TA.  We took the Peggy McIntosh article, written in the 1980s, and updated it as a class.  I had them work in small groups to pick out the examples highlighted by McIntosh that may be outdated and in need of modification - as well as come up with new ones.  



For the next 26 days I'm going to post McIntosh's 26 examples of white privilege, show how my students updated them, and subsequently provide evidence of its continued relevance.  Its kind of like advent for anti-racist activists.  

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