"Whiteness: The Power of Privilege", sociology homework help

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After reading the assigned chapters in Part 3 of the Rothenberg text, write a paper that discusses the phrase ‘white privilege’ as it relates to societies and to you. This paper must use support from all six essays (McIntosh, Wise, Shams, DiAngelo, Graham, and Dyson) to identify and evaluate the objectives noted below.

Objectives

  1. Define privilege.  According to the authors, what practice(s) create white privilege? What does it mean to claim that whiteness is privileged and normalized  in contemporary U.S. society? 
  2. Explore the meaning of the invisibility of privilege. Is this invisibility sustained in modern societies?  If so, how is it sustained and by whom? 
  3. Discuss the relationship between class and race in the United States.  Do you believe the economic system of capitalism encourages American citizens to take advantage of these privileges? Why, or why not?  How might these privileges have played a role in how you were raised? Provide examples in your life that suggests or dispels this privilege of whiteness.

This paper must be 3-4 pages in length & double-spaced.  You do not need to provide an abstract for this paper; however, you must include citations from each of the essays and provide a Reference List correctly formatted in APA style. 


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Running head: WHITENESS: THE POWER OF PRIVILEGE

The Power of Privilege
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WHITENESS: THE POWER OF PRIVILEGE

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Introduction
Over the past decades, being white has been considered a privilege enjoyed by the white
community. Racial discrimination can be traced back to the colonial era whereby, the colonialist
treated members from their colonies as being inferior to them. The white privileged members of
the society were not faced with challenges like slavery and slave trade. They were the masters
while the blacks and other races were the servants.
Definition of Privilege
Peggy McLntosh argues that privilege refers to the benefits that a set of people see other
people gain but which they remain oblivious to (McLntosh, 2000). It refers to benefits accorded
to one group of members in the society which are not accessible to another group of individuals
in society. White privilege, on the other hand, refers to privilege that the white can enjoy but the
blacks or rather the people of color do not stand to benefit from. White privilege is created
whereby the white members of the society can be allowed to walk with other whites and they
will n...


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