Since our "white privilege" episode, my thoughts have crystallized a bit on this, so I'm hoping this simple formulation may help cut through some of our listeners' confusion surrounding this issue: "White Privilege" (or just "Privilege" in general used in this way) should not be taken as a claim about a mechanism behind disparities, but just a way of pointing out that the Continue Reading …
Episode 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Part One)
Is the rhetoric of "White Privilege" just the modern way of acknowledging historical and systemic truths of racism, or does it point to a novel way for acknowledging injustice, or does it on the contrary obscure these insights by involving confused claims about group responsibility and guilt? We are rejoined by guest Lawrence Ware to discuss several sources, some less formal Continue Reading …
Ep. 161: White Privilege (Peggy McIntosh, Charles Mills, et al) (Citizen Edition)
Is the rhetoric of "White Privilege" just the modern way of acknowledging historical and systemic truths of racism, or does it point to a novel way for acknowledging injustice, or does it on the contrary obscure these insights by involving confused claims about group responsibility and guilt? We are rejoined by guest Law Ware to discuss several sources, some less formal than Continue Reading …