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Before Robin DiAngelo and “white fragility,” there was Peggy McIntosh and “white privilege.” McIntosh had her racial awakening in the late 1970s and early 1980s, working for the Wellesley ...
- Lauren Michele Jackson
Oct 24, 2016 · That changed after she read activist Peggy McIntosh’s 1988 paper that included the widely-distributed section, “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” a list of 50 daily privileges white folks have over people of color. McIntosh’s work opened a window to a racialized worldview that DiAngelo hadn’t seen previously.
Peggy McIntosh (born November 7, 1934) is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and senior research scientist of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).
Apr 5, 2017 · She credits Peggy McIntosh's seminal piece "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" for first opening her eyes to the tacit and unacknowledged benefits of being white, but it was...
DiAngelo coined the term "white fragility" in 2011, to describe defensive behavior by a white person when their conception of racism is questioned. White Fragility is DiAngelo's third book, following What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy (2012).
- Robin J. DiAngelo
- 2018
Peggy McIntosh first popularized the concept of white privilege in her now-classic 1989 essay “ White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .”
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In 1988, Peggy McIntosh published an eye-opening piece on white privilege entitled "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." This article was the first of its kind as it names, in very clear ways, 50 “invisible” privileges of being/appearing white.
