Thursday, September 18, 2014

Privilege

In this picture there are  two white girls at school. They are studying for their classes. I took this picture at school. This shows that these girls are experiencing white privilege because they don't even that they are privilege.


Privilege is power confirmed to someone based on their position within the social system/institution(Johnson, Gender knot 91). Privilege is not something someone can accept or reject. Privilege is granted endowed and given (91). These girls are experiencing white privilege which is an individual package of unearned assets, whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average also the ideal way of life(91). Johnson says you don't have to feel privilege to be privileged(91). In McIntosh Knapsack simile they quote " privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on casting in each day, but about which i was meant to remain oblivious". In this picture the white girls are sitting at college doing their class work. When they graduate the probably will have an easier time finding a job. The do not know they are privilege for being white.




No comments:

Post a Comment