White Privilege The Invisible Knapsack Analysis

People who fit in one of these three categories often believe that they have earned the privileges and that if other people worked for it, they could also share those privileges. But in actual fact, these privileges are unlearned can’t be earned through hard work. They are simply given to you if you are born into any of the dominant groups, which you have no control over. This is supported by McIntosh (1988) “I have noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that they are over-privileged in the curriculum, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged” (pg. 11) as well as Lorde (1984) “As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change” (pg.

O’Connor makes use of explicit symbolism and well-developed characterization and diction to help her readers understand that social grace and skin

“My skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to want to make”(Mcintosh 1). A quote from Peggy McIntosh’s essay shows how the way we are treated in our societies has a direct impact on the way we perform in that society. The essay caused me to think deeply about myself and how I truly am privileged to be white; although we may not notice it there are millions of privileges linked to our skin colour. Upon finishing the reading I was questioning not only white privilege but also things like racism and what I myself could do to help people of other ethnicity’s not feel underprivileged. To begin, Peggy McIntosh mentions in her essay the fact that men have privilege over women causing women disadvantages in the same way whites have power

Through out their articles it is evident that they have an idea and view of who can, and should be able to tell the story of Nat Turner, and what their purpose should be. The setup of the book is not complicated but the flow of the book can be a bit confusing. Another fault in the book is that several of the articles and essays are repetitive and describe situations in the first person as if they were there and include dialogues that haven’t been proven to happen. Some of the bad aspects of the book would be that it was made to accompany a documentary. It also strays off topic by integrating the last portion about Nat Turner in Hollywood.

Indeed, after the 'incident ', he wonders whether he should "go forward with the charge or blow his own brains out or what?" (2129) This question demonstrates that Lionel starts to doubt, because there appears to be an option other than downright submission to society 's norms. Even so, the alternative is a pessimistic one: should he no longer "go forward with the charge" that his role as a member of the 'Ruling Race ' imposes on him, he would (have to) 'blow his own brains out ', because his homosexual proclivities are forbidden. Lionel thus faces the impossibility to accept his nature: he can only choose between upholding society 's ideals and committing suicide.

As a white writer, Rowell also wants to write about other races, like she does in Eleanor and Park, “that’s really scary. You have good intentions, but at the same time, you’re blind” (Rowell 2013). Throughout her books Rainbow Rowell takes her experiences and ideals and brings them to life in her writing, she writes to tell a story but also to make herself happy with her writing. The usage of words to create an image helps the reader be more in touch with the book and its storyline.

Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” has always been a book that can be controversial from female, black, and white perspectives. Many people may think that whites are just a form of an antagonist for the narrator, but there is more to the white characters than initially thought, or I should say less. The white characters in the novel all have something in common, and that is they all seem to be searching for some form of identity. It goes from the the “Battle Royal,” which is broad and covers many generic white characters, all the way to specific characters like Emerson, Norton, and Sybil. The way Ellison is able to accomplish this loss of identity for white characters is through his language and how he constructs scenes in the book.

He lacks a fortifying defense to reject notions and assert by his enemies that they do not apply to him. Rather, his identity as an outsider is that he absorbs what is imposed upon him and what he consciously seek to reject. By making adaptation, we applied the essences into the context that closely related to us. The context of our group is at work. Three essences should be implemented into the acting, including outsider, insider, and conflicts.

When an individual is made to question their basic values, they change what they know and reform their perspectives due to the persuasion of an influential voice. Indira Gandhi’s speech effectively portrays the inequality experienced throughout society and is evident in the line, “We need women”. It is evident that Gandhi uses a feminist voice and effectively uses inclusive language in order to inflict her personal beliefs and ideas onto the audience in order to persuade them by targeting their emotions and unifying the audience under the common idea of equality. Likewise, Obama’s democratic voice makes his audience question what they already know and whilst doing this also sparking fires in each individual to unify them as a whole. Obama states, “When a little girl born into the bleakest poverty…

work, we are still always aware of her presence in the background of contemporary literature.” (Edmund Wilson in Axel 's Castle, 1931) She reversed the roles and broke all taboos about her sexuality in her writings by expressing them freely in her works but that gained her major criticism in that period of time . One of the most critical mechanisms of modern or new racism is that it is based on an ideological structure of dissimilarity and othering, meaning the major focus of the modern racism is uniqueness or the individuality of the person.

The Critical Race Theory was developed by a group of feminist scholars who studied the ways “racism and sexism helped to create and reinforce a power structure that historically privileged white males had over other Americans”. In the past 20 years, critical race theorists have used slave history to prove how a negative image of black women has persisted. It is the opinion of many respected scholars that the Critical Race Theory is difficult to define with simple examples. Two female scholars Derrick Bell and Darlene Clark Hine gave detailed examples to clarify their claims that race and gender played a major role in how CRT scholars were able to demonstrate why slave owners created the “jezebel” and “mammy” stereotypes. The “jezebel” was a term that implied a black female slave was a primitive creature with uncontrollable sex urges which caused innocent white slave owners to lose self-control.

Friedersdorf does bring in other articles to challenge both Koenig’s and Kang’s thoughts on the podcast’s production and script. Kang challenged Koenig’s credibility to report on cultures she does not understand due to her whiteness. Friedersdorf goes back and forward on this idea throughout the article. Friedersdorf starts off the article by listing his biases, which is a way for his to boost his ability to be trusted as a source. He likes to tells his audience about who he likes and what he likes about them, including the podcast Serial.

They clearly use a racialized lens, with emphasis on critical reflexivity and white privilege. They argue that to achieve social justice, it is important to battle both institutional and micro level racism in order to achieve equality with power sharing being the ultimate goal (Pon et al., 2011). These articles have a similar focus of empowering the people that are silenced and face systemic and institutionalised racism suggesting race as the starting

In the book, Wild Seed, by Octavia Butler, as a reader we see a variety of themes throughout. As a reader, it is easy to follow and understand. I believe it is a book everyone should read. There are a variety of reasons why someone should read the book. The first reason is because the book is may be lengthy to some and not lengthy to others.

Racism continues to be an issue that causes a great deal of tension in the United States. While some believe that we are living in a post-racial society, others are aware that racism can take different forms in this day and age. In White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race, author Matthew Hughey tackles the topic of racism in a unique way. Hughey focuses on how the members of the two groups that he conducted the study on conceptualize their whiteness and how that relates to racism. Hughey spend a little over one year conducting his research for this project.