Search results
- Many of us believe that we're living in a meritocracy, deserving of what we have and compassionate toward those with less. But that's not true: white people have been given a headstart and ongoing advantages due to the color of their skin, while people of color suffer from equally arbitrary disadvantages, says scholar and activist Peggy McIntosh.
www.mac.ac.nz › mac-readings-library › 2020/8/31TED TALK Peggy McIntosh: Ho to use your white privilege - and ...
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. As we in women’s studies work to reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white ...
- 213KB
- 5
People also ask
What is the myth of meritocracy?
What does Peggy McIntosh say about white privilege?
Who is Peggy McIntosh?
What is the myth of Manifest Destiny?
The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy.
Many of us believe that we're living in a meritocracy, deserving of what we have and compassionate toward those with less. But that's not true: white people have been given a headstart and ongoing advantages due to the color of their skin, while people of color suffer from equally arbitrary disadvantages, says scholar and activist Peggy McIntosh.
The myth of meritocracy is the myth that the individual is the only unit of society, and that whatever a person ends up with must be what he or she individually wanted, worked for, earned and deserved.
Explain the myth of meritocracy: that the unit of society is the individual and that whatever one ends up with must be whatever that individual wanted, worked for, earned, and deserved.
May 24, 2019 · In this episode, I talk with with Dr. Peggy McIntosh, the scholar who has done more than anyone else in the past 30 years to advance the concept of privilege as crucial for understanding and dismantling our pervasive myth of meritocracy.
In this essay, “White People Facing Race: Uncovering the Myths that Keep Racism in Place,” McIntosh explores why conversations about race are so difficult for white people. She describes five myths that help to preserve white privilege: the myth of meritocracy, the myth of manifest destiny, the myth of white racelessness, the myth of ...
