White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correpondences through Work in Women’s Studies by Peggy McIntosh
 

1) What does it mean to say that a group is “disadvantaged.”
 
 
 
 

2) What does “advantage” mean?
 
 
 
 
 

3) How do white men and women and men of all color fail to knowledge their privilege.
 
 
 
 
 
 

4) “Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow ‘them’ to be more like ‘us.’” p. 31
 
 
 
 
 

5) What is the myth of meritocracy?
 
 
 
 
 
 

6) “The word privilege now seems to me misleading.”   Explain.
 
 
 
 
 
 

7) What is unearned entitlement, unearned advantage and conferred dominance?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

8) How do the above terms harm white people.
 
 
 
 
 

9) How does heterosexism fit into this?