Feminist scholar and anti-racism educator Peggy McIntosh famously described white privilege as an “invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas ...

“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Examples from the original longer work include: “1. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.” ...

McIntosh is widely known as the author of a paper, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” which became a staple of discussions about bias. Blame and shame aren’t part of her ...

I walk a racial tightrope. It’s one I’ve struggled to balance on for my entire life. But over the past several weeks, I’ve felt myself teetering. I’m black and outraged that racism ...

As a white person, I have unearned advantages ... I carry around this invisible knapsack. I am so aware of my privilege that it is, at times, blinding. And, yet, I can't lose that knapsack.

I now see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can cash in each day, but about which I was meant to remain oblivious. It is like an invisible knapsack of special ...

Peggy McIntosh coined the phrase “invisible knapsack” as a metaphor for the benefits white Americans disproportionately carry compared with black and other Americans of color. (Flickr ...