She is the founder of the National SEED Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). Now my pack contains 23 statements that begin 'I can't,' 2 that say 'I'm not,' and one that begins 'I need to.' For example, I cannot remain unschooled in the language, customs, heroes, holidays, laws, rules, styles, values, religion, educational models, marriage rituals, birthing techniques, burial practices, gods, afterlife, heaven or hell of persons who dominate my world. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh Peggy McIntosh is an anti-racism activist, scholar, and Senior Research Scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women. I begin by placing McIntosh's positive statements in their opposite terms. Peace and Freedom was the magazine of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack is an essay written by Peggy McIntosh and published in Peace and Freedom magazine in 1989.

In unpacking this invisible knapsack of white privilege, I listed conditions of daily. As McIntosh unpacks her knapsack, I pack mine. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh) (6). Of the 26 items in her knapsack, 23 contain the phrase 'I can,' 2 contain 'I am' and one contains the phrase 'I need not.' For example, she 'can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world's majority,' and she can do so without penalty. McIntosh lists her privileges, all expressed in terms of what she and people like her can do. In the same way, people are socially conditioned not to recognize all the unearned disadvantages stuffed into the invisible knapsack carried by people of color. McIntosh rightly observed that white persons - indeed, everyone in American society - are 'conditioned into oblivion' about the existence of privilege in the United States.

Unpacking the invisible backpack