What is an annotated bibliography? Annotated bibliographies provide basic bibliographic information in a standard style of documentation, as in a traditional bibliography or “works cited” page; the only difference is that each source is “annotated” with a statement about the text. This statement can range in length from 150-250 words and should provide insight into […]
Came across this video and thought it made a great point and expanded upon some of what was said in class.
In Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s book “Racism without Racists,” the author raises an interesting point about visibility of certain minority groups. Regarding Asian Americans, Bonilla states that in addition to doing well economically and educationally, they are still viewed as the “rising powers of East Asia,” a stereotype formed in the 1990s. Bonilla cites the 1998 Disney […]
Reading Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” only reinforced my acknowledgement of the injustice present within our communities. However, Mcintosh’s statement “My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor,” had me questioning whether someone could go as far as to call another who just so happened to have been […]
Discrimination is one of the major problems in our society today. This discrimination is not only limited to race but further extends to gender, nationality, education, physical appearance and even social status. According to the article “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh the heart of this problem rests in our basic understanding of these […]
Reading McIntosh’s article about white privilege, ironically, reminded me of another article with the title “Why I’ll Never Apologize for my White Male Privilege,” written by Tal Fortgang, a former Princeton student. He opens the narrative by mocking the popular saying “check your privilege,” which suggests that whites should be “apologetic” for the invisible power […]
This week I learned about racism from a different perspective. Peggy McIntosh brilliantly described the circumstances of racism in our day and age. One interesting sentence that McIntosh writes is, “white privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.” This sentence brings attention to […]
I’m very lucky to belong to a social group that talks about privilege– a lot. Coming into these conversations for the first time, as outsiders tend to occasionally, isn’t a comfortable process. It is painful to realize that so much of what you thought was your own hard work, what you thought you accomplished yourself, […]
In live there are many times that an in visible thing plays a role in our daily lives. Throughout history we have learned about the invisible hand, and invisible lines and thresholds. But if they make such a difference in our lives…why do we refer to them as invisible? After reading “White Privilege: Unpacking the […]
I should start by saying that I noticed the criticism towards the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva document, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, first. Thus I do not deny the possibility of bias. I can see why people find Bonilla-Silva’s article to be rather horrible. In 2006, Bonilla-Silva couldn’t […]
