White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh

Peggy McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley Collage Center for Research on Women. This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" (1988), by Peggy McIntosh.

The link address is: http://www.case.edu/president/aaction/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf