Privilege
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks." --"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1989) |
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A privilege is a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
See also
- Privilege (legal ethics), a permission granted by law or other rules.
- Privilege (evidence), rules excluding certain confidential communication from being admissible as evidence in court
- Executive privilege, the claim by the President of the United States and other executives to immunity from legal process
- Privilege (social inequality), a term in sociology describing any special status granted to one group and usually portrayed as default
- Privilege (canon law)
- Privilege (film)
