Question

Define using a scholarly source "white privilege" and provide 2 examples.

Answer 1

A Privelege may be defined as an advantage, immuinity or a right enjoyed by few beyond what is enjoyed by Most.

Peggy Mcintosh described two types of Privileges in the american society

1 White Privelege : as whites enjoyed more benefits than blacks who were often discriminated.

2 Male Privelege : Males are often seen as more reliable than females in workplace.

Examples of white privilege

1.The writing of the U.S. Constitution which,

in ten articles, very intentionally confirmed

the holding of Black people as slaves, as

property.

2. Choosing to withhold from African

Americans the ability to read so that they

could not reproduce any of their culture or

function well enough in our literate society

to change their status.