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DOCUMENT RESUNE ED 335 262 SO 021 329 AUTHOR McIntosh, Peggy TITLE White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Persona/ Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Womens Studies. Working Paper No. 189. INSTITUTION Wellesley Coll., Mass. Center for Research on Women. SPONS AGENCY Anna Wilder Phelps Fund, ChiL:ago, IL. PUB DATE 98 NOTE 25p.; Presented at the Virginia Womens Studies Association Conference (Richmond, VA, April, 1986); and the American Educational Research Association Conference (Boston, MA, October, 1986). AVAILABLE FROM Center for Research on Women, Wellsley College, Wellsey, MA 02181 ($4.00; $1.00 shipping and handling). PUB TYPE Reports - Descriptive (141) -- Speeches/Conference Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Females; Higher Education; *Males; *Racial Discrimination; *Sex Discrimination; *Sex Fairness; *Whites; *Womens Studies ABSTRACT In much the same way that men are not taught to acknowledge all the ways they are privileged in society, whites are not taught to recognize how their status as white people confers on them many privileges. Arguing that male privilege and white privilege are interrelated; and that both types of privilege are unearned and unjustified, this paper begins by reviewing several layers of denial that men have about their privilege and that work to protect, prevent awareness about, and entrench that privilege. The paper goes on to present parallels from one womans personal experience,