White Privilege
Channel: Sociology Live!
Date: 2015-10-15

White privilege is a concept that was developed and discussed throughout the 20th century. This video focuses on the academic article written by Peggy McIntosh in 1988 White and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies and her specific except taken from this article (Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack). Examples that McIntosh uses in this article include:
-being a credit to her race when stepping up in a challenging situation
-using flesh colored bandaids are a fairly close match to her skin color
Examples used in this video include:
-When someone doesn’t say “hi” to me I do not have to wonder if it is because of my race
-I have a full aisle of soap and hair care products to choose from in a big box chain store

Further explanation of white privilege can be found on pages 232-233 in Sociology 2e by OpenStax College.