I decided to supplement how Julia Wood’s handles race in her textbook for Gender and Comm. I’m asking the students to read Peggy MacIntosh’s article, “White Privilege.” It’s very old, but still useful. Some links:

WMST-L‘s discussion list archive on the article.

If you want the whole paper, you can buy it from Wellesley.

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