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The term "white privilege" was popularized in 1988 by Peggy McIntosh [1988]. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” [https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege].▼
<blockquote>''"''I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks."</blockquote> ▼
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'''"Whiteness studies''' is an interdisciplinary arena of inquiry that has developed beginning in the United States, particularly since the late 20th century, and is focused on what proponents describe as the cultural, historical and sociological aspects of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people people identified as white], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_construction social construction] of "whiteness" as an ideology tied to social status. Pioneers in the field include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois W. E. B. Du Bois] ("Jefferson Davis as a Representative of Civilization", 1890; ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwater Darkwater]'', 1920), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin James Baldwin] (''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Next_Time The Fire Next Time]'', 1963), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_W._Allen Theodore W. Allen] (''The Invention of the White Race,'' 1976, expanded in 1995), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Frankenberg Ruth Frankenberg] (''White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness'', 1993), author and literary critic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison Toni Morrison] (''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_in_the_Dark:_Whiteness_and_the_Literary_Imagination Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination]'', 1992) and historian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roediger David Roediger] (''The Wages of Whiteness'', 1991). " - Wikipedia, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies Whiteness studies]"<br/> <br/> <br/> Du Bois, W.E.B. “The Souls of White Folk,” from ''Darkwater ''(1920).
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Morrison, Toni. Mouth of Full Blood (February 2019) - collected essays and speeches written between 1976 and 2013.
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== White privilege ==
▲The term "white privilege" was popularized in 1988 by Peggy McIntosh [1988]. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” [https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege].
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== References ==
Allen, Theodore W. ''The Invention of the White Race''. (1976)▼
Du Bois, W.E.B. “The Souls of White Folk,” from ''Darkwater ''(1920).▼
McIntosh, Peggy [1988]. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” [https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege].▼
Morrison, Toni. "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." (1992)▼
Morrison, Toni. ''The Origin of Others''. (2017). ▼
Morrison, Toni. Mouth of Full Blood (February 2019) - collected essays and speeches written between 1976 and 2013. ▼
Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People (2010). ▼
Roediger, David. ''The Wages of Whiteness'' (1991). ▼
▲*Allen, Theodore W. ''The Invention of the White Race''. (1976)<br/>
Wikipedia, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies]." [accessed 27 August, 2019]. ▼
▲*Du Bois, W.E.B. “The Souls of White Folk,” from ''Darkwater ''(1920).<br/>
▲*McIntosh, Peggy [1988]. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” [https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege].<br/>
▲*Morrison, Toni. "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." (1992)<br/>
▲*Morrison, Toni. ''The Origin of Others''. (2017). <br/>
▲*Morrison, Toni. Mouth of Full Blood (February 2019) - collected essays and speeches written between 1976 and 2013. <br/>
▲*Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People (2010).<br/>
▲*Roediger, David. ''The Wages of Whiteness'' (1991). <br/>
▲*Wikipedia, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies]." [accessed 27 August, 2019].
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