White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
by Peggy McIntosh
Classic article on the topic of white privilege. This excerpted essay is reprinted from the Winter 1990 issue of "Independent School."
Vision, Privilege, and the Limits of Tolerance by Cris Cullinan
by Cris Cullinan
From the "Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education," Vol. 1, No. 2, September 1999.
Understanding White Privilege
by Frances E. Kendall
Article by a leading educator in the area of privilege.
Membership Has Its Privileges
by Tim Wise
From "Rethinking Schools Online: An Urban Education Resource," Volume 16 No. 4-Summer 2002.
The Benefits of Being White Exercise
by Paul Kivel
Exercise on white privilege that could be used in a classroom setting.
Teaching
About Whiteness
by Gregory Jay
Suggestions for teaching about whiteness from a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Includes discussion questions and suggested activities. (Downloads as a Word Document)
More Thoughts on Why the System of White Privilege is Wrong
by Robert Jensen
Follow-up essay to "White Privilege Shapes the U.S." From "The Capitol Times," Vol. 2 No. 42, Austin, Texas, Published September 16, 1999
How We Are White
By Gary Howard from the Southern Poverty Law Journal, "Teaching Tolerance"
Essay from the author of the book We Can't Teach What We Don't Know.
White Like Me
by Ellen Barry
First of an eight-part series of essays on what it means to be white. Includes links to the subsequent articles.
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