Visible Knapsack Project

Using Peggy McIntosh's article 'Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack' as a reference we have been able to examine the phenomenon of White priviledge. McIntosh has described it as a weightless, and invisible backpack containing those things which give an advantage to a certain group without them being aware that they have it. Many of those factors have been shown in an earlier post.

I've described the 'Visible Knapsack' as something that people carry within the Black Community that contain things that are both evident and detrimental to development within that community.

The assignment is the displaying of those factors and the presentation detailing how those things slow or hurt the Black Community's ability to manage in mainstream society.