- Peggy McIntosh
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footnotes =Peggy McIntosh is an American feminist and
anti-racist activist, a speaker and the founder and co-director of the NationalS.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) [ [http://www.wcwonline.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=893&Itemid=149&Itemid=54/ SEED Project website] , at Wellesley Centers for Women] .] .McIntosh is most famous for authoring "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies." [McIntosh, 1988. Working Paper #189, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley, MA 02181.] This analysis and its shorter form, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," [Excerpt from McIntosh 1988 Working Paper #189, published in "Peace and Freedom", July/August 1989; reprinted in "Independent School", Winter 1990.] "have been instrumental in putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of
gender , race and sexuality". [ [http://www.speakoutnow.org/People/PeggyMcIntosh.html SpeakOut Now] .] The essay set forth the concept of "white privilege ", a theoretical construct that has since significantly influencedanti-racist theory and practice as well as other activist movements. [Fact|date=October 2007]See also
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White privilege
*male privilege
*anti-racist
*Tim Wise References
External links
* [http://www.speakoutnow.org/People/PeggyMcIntosh.html Biography Information for Peggy McIntosh]
* [http://www.wcwonline.org/keypeople/mcintosh.html Bio at Wellesley Centers for Women]
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