10 questions, short answer

Answer the following questions:

1. How does McIntosh define White privilege? 

2. Create a list of the privileges you experience based on your racial, gender, or sexual identity. Is it difficult for you to identify your privilege? Why do you think this is the case?

3. In what way do men deny their privileged position? In what way do Whites? Why do you think people deny their privilege?

4. How do both the racist past and racist present in the United States show evidence that White supremacist views are linked to and depend upon systems of patriarchy and male dominance? Locate examples in Feagins article or provide your own examples. 

5. Feagin reports that polls show that while the vast majority of Black Americans report experiencing racial discrimination, the majority of White Americans did not think anti-Black discrimination was either widespread or a serious problem. Why might Black and White Americans have such different views of racial discrimination? 

6. Describe the white supremacists view of Jewish people. How does Ferber explain their perspective?

7. What conclusions did Ferber draw regarding white supremacy and the social construction of race?

8. On what basis does the author argue that industrial capitalism emerged in the United States as a gendered institution?

9. On what basis does the author argue that industrial capitalism emerged in the United States as a racialized institution?

10. How does unpaid caregiving and domestic labor figure into the gendering of capitalism?