Peggy McIntosh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peggy McIntosh

American feminist and anti-racism activist

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1934

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Peggy McIntosh (born November 7, 1934) is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and Senior Research Scientist of the Wellesley Centers for Women.
She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).
She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for its first twenty-five years.
She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, hierarchies in education and society, and professional development of teachers. In 1988, she published the article "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies".
This analysis, and its shorter version, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1989), pioneered putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of power, gender, race, class and sexuality in the United States.
Both papers rely on personal examples of unearned advantage that McIntosh says she experienced in her lifetime, especially from 1970 to 1988.
McIntosh encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages and disadvantages as parts of immense and overlapping systems of power.
Her recent book, On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning: Selected Essays 1981-2019, is a collection of her essays published over her career.