“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?