social work assignment 1

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Social Work 151

Diversity Exploration #1

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

After you have read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, ask yourself the following questions and single space type your responses. Overtly bold type the prompts with your responses following in regular type. You can be brief, but your responses should be in complete sentences. I want to know what you think, not word-for-word Google responses.

1. What is white privilege?

2. What is unearned advantage?

3. What is conferred dominance?

4. How do people deny that systems of dominance exist?

5. How is white advantage strongly enculturated?

6. What is meant by the myth of meritocracy?

7. How might someone with white privilege use his or her unearned advantage for the betterment of all and not just his/her own cohorts? What ideas do you have about how people who are born “white” can use arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems?