Does “White Denial” Disprove “White Privilege”?

A Correspondence With Reality Check

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In 1988, Peggy McIntosh, a white feminist scholar, wrote a paper called White Privilege and Male Privilege. Here the term “white privilege” was coined and described as “an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions”. McIntosh listed 46 ways she had “white privilege”. Her list ranged from serious to trivial. Having little fear of the…