KINE 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Asian Americans, White Supremacy, Heteronormativity

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Peggy has noticed men"s unwillingness to grant that they are over-privileged in the curriculum. White privilege and male privilege: a personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women"s studies. Page 1: denials accumulate to taboos and these denials protect male privilege from being fully recognized. Since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there should also be white privilege. Peggy thinks whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, just like men are not taught to see male privilege. This paper is her observations of white privilege and she thinks that white privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets that she can count on to cash each day, but also meant to remain oblivious . Peggy saw parallels with men"s reluctance to acknowledge male privilege they only acknowledge rarely. All men deny that male over reward alone can explain men"s centrality in all the inner sanctums of our most powerful.