White privilege

1. White privilege Fernando Regis Afr 1502 https://twitter.com/ManFern38 http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fregis-eportfolio

2. Definition 1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities. b. A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc. 2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non–white persons.

3. Peggy McIntosh Author of White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack “I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was meant to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools , and blank checks.”

4. Peggy McIntosh Then I remembered the frequent charges from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why we are just seen as oppressive, even when we don't see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about its existence.

5. Examples of White privilege 1 I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the "person in charge", I will be facing a person of my race. • Most of the major cooperations in the us are own by whites 2 I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. • Whites are more widely represented on oprah’s website www.oprah.com than any other race. 3 White are given better jobs, better pay, better treatment, and a better chance - all because of the color of their skin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9QBnPK6Yg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysj_8fqnNcY

6. Statistics According to the Bureau of labor statistics: 1 In 2010, median usual weekly earnings of Asian men ($1,408) and White men ($1,273) working full time in management, professional, and related occupations (the highest paying major occupation group) were well above the earnings of Hispanic men ($1,002) and Black men ($957) in the same occupation group

7. statistics 2 Among employed men, nearly half (48 percent) of Asians worked in management, professional, and related occupations in 2010, compared with 35 percent of Whites, 24 percent of Blacks, and 15 percent of Hispanics.

8. statistics 3 Employed Black and Hispanic men were more likely than other men to work in production, transportation, and material moving occupations. Nearly one-half of employed Hispanic men were in two job groups: natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations; and production, transportation, and material moving occupations.

9. Conclusion Peggy mcIntosh: although systemic change takes many decades, there are pressing questions for me and, I imagine, for some others like me if we raise our daily consciousness on the perquisites of being light-skinned. Whatwill we do with such knowledge?

10. Questions ???