Write Privilege

By Colleen Flaherty. White privilege -- the concept that whites benefit from structural racism in ways that similarly situated nonwhites don’t -- has been hotly debated among academics for decades. But recent events -- from the riots and protests in Ferguson, Mo., to the closure of a University of Oklahoma fraternity over its racist chants, to this week’s beating of a black University of Virginia student by campus police -- have reinvigorated that debate, along with calls for teachers to talk directly with their students about white privilege. Read more...