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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

McIntosh, P. (1989). Peace and Freedom (July/August): 10-12.

Organization: 
European Professional Women's Network @ Amsterdam
Date Published: 
June, 2003

Peggy McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley College 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 Studid'(1988), by Peggy McIntosh.

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