Race and Privilege

“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks.”
-Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

  • How do you see race play into your service?
  • What do you think you represent to others at your service site?
  • How does one work for social change when racism is so built and interwoven into society?

Describe your personal experience as a racialized person. Journal:

  • Where did you grow up?
  • What was your home like?
  • What was your grade school/middle school experience like?
  • Who were your friends?
  • What teams were you in?
  • What clubs were you in?
  • What were your family get-togethers like?
  • How often were you around people of your ethnicity?
  • How much did you think about the ethnicity of the people with whom you would interact?
  •  Did you have a few people of “other”-ed ethnicity in school/clubs/teams?
  • Were you an “other” in terms of ethnicity?
  • If so, what was that like?
  • How do you experience your racialized identity at DePaul?
  • How do you fit into the DePaul community?