My headline is selling the author short, she’s actually the person who came up with the absurd notion of “white privilege” with her 1989 essay “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”
Via Campus Reform:
The author of the analysis and essay that set forth the concept of “white privilege” is scheduled to speak at Gonzaga University Tuesday evening.
Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., associate director of Wellesley Centers for Women, will speak tonight on race, inclusion, privilege, and gender in a lecture titled “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”
The title of the talk comes from her 1989 essay, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” the shortened version of a longer analysis, “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies.”
“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks,” according to “Knapsack.”
“Knapsack” lists twenty-six daily effects of white privilege, including purchasing “posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race,” and “chose blemish cover or bandages in flesh color that more or less matches my skin.”