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Peggy Mcinntosh White Privilege During World War 2

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1. Many wealth is inherited from families. People who owned properties and estates will be giving to their children when they died or get old. Most wealth benefits were granted back in World War II. The racial wealth divide is wealth and poverty created after World War II. When veterans returned home the FHA approved 98% (podcast, House Rule) of the mortgage to white people allowing them to buy lands, farms, properties, and houses. Helping building up the middle-class people by allowing them to get home ownership. They were approved for G.I. Bill to attend school and grants to start up small business. Meanwhile black veterans returned from war and was turned down for all the these benefits that left them remain in poverty. The white …show more content…

According to Peggy McIntosh white privilege is a hegemonic dominant. Hegemony is whiteness is a norm. It’s a norm that a ruling class of whiteness becomes the ruling ideas in society. Is like people are not choosing the dominant ideology side freely, the structure is just there. “White people don’t recognize white privilege and so it comes to see white privilege as an invisible package they get special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.” (McIntosh) She grew up in the environment she was self-taught as she mentioned her schooling gave her no training to see herself as an oppressor and she treated others with unfairness and takes advantages of other people. “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness.” But the most important point is we must not just think about racism as individuals acts of meanness. McIntosh wants us not to “instill guilt or defensiveness in whites, but to increase awareness, create an acknowledgement of privilege and expand our understanding of racism.” (lecture …show more content…

She wanted people to aware more of it so it can redesign the social systems. She understands that changing the system took many years and when white people speaks out it is more like white asking for dominance because they already have “privilege and at the presence democratic choice is equally available to all and is keeping many people unaware of that freedom they have and only small amount of people know to use the power and serves to keep the power in hands of the same groups of people that have most of it already.” (McIntosh) So if more people of different race and color are aware of they can speak up and help balance out the society. They can ask for the rights that is rights given to the

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