On My Mixed Experience with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” |
On My Mixed Experience with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity
2014-08-28
Gino M. Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California
I have this peculiar, twofold, scrambled-egg relationship with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” the oft-quoted, seminal article written by Peggy McIntosh in the late 1980s.
That is to say, I have been a student in college classes where McIntosh’s article was cited and discussed, classes in which I was perceived and treated as a white male oppressor. Conversely, I have assigned or cited McIntosh’s article in classes where most of my students perceived and treated me as nonwhite, classes in which I identified myself as mixed race and a person of color—Mexican, Italian, White, Native American…
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