McIntosh, Peggy. "white privilege and male privilege - A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in women's Studies". Collection of literary passages Privilege: A Reader. Westview Press, 2003. Print.
This article touches on a few things, McIntosh starts off the article trying to better understand and justify why men don't get why they have certain privileges over women. Although through the process of doing this analysis, McIntosh found herself assessing her own privileges. Eventually she came to the conclusion that not just genders have privileges over one another, but also anyone can have a privilege over another. Be it race, social status, ethnicity, age, education, etc. She towards the end of the article brings up that privilege also can be seen not just as something one wants, but also something that can infer dominance or control over someone else.
I think that this article was very helpful in understanding how to use research and make it so that you can better understand a theory or even a simple concept. I know now I can pick out certain themes in an article or journal and not just go by the title, but further read into it. I probably wouldn't have thought that this source is where my teacher had pulled her activity in class from, but now knowing the process of how that activity came, I can better appreciate it.
I also really enjoyed this piece because it surprised me, at first I thought it was going to be simple, yet really it was a very complex article and it made me think further into the idea of privileges. I think this activity as small as it was, really opened my eyes to research and how it can really benefit you. I also like the fact that this reinforced how you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover.
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