Reflecting on Experience: Due on Mar. 10, 2015
(Please read “White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”)
In her essay, Peggy McIntosh uses race to make readers examine how much of their daily live may be embedded in privilege without their realizing it.
• For this post, please reflect on what it means to be an American student on a study away program, or to simply be American (in the eyes of other countries) in the first place, and what privileges does this bring with it?
If you are at a domestic destination like D.C. or the Duke Marine Lab, what types of privileges are you enjoying that may/may not center on nationality?
• Think about whether your ability to travel to another destination for an experience you can add to your resume, brings with it certain advantages that are easily overlooked?
• What does it mean to be able to add intercultural experiences or research/internship opportunities and a study abroad/away component to our marketability, and are we learning at the cost of other cultures/people?
In the last case, even if you are still in the U.S. think about whether the work you are involved with involves local communities or is knowledge from the top?
• Read the assigned reading and even if you are not in a developing country, think about the argument the writer is making, and what you would bring to that conversation
• For this post, please reflect on what it means to be an American student on a study away program, or to simply be American (in the eyes of other countries) in the first place, and what privileges does this bring with it?
If you are at a domestic destination like D.C. or the Duke Marine Lab, what types of privileges are you enjoying that may/may not center on nationality?
• Think about whether your ability to travel to another destination for an experience you can add to your resume, brings with it certain advantages that are easily overlooked?
• What does it mean to be able to add intercultural experiences or research/internship opportunities and a study abroad/away component to our marketability, and are we learning at the cost of other cultures/people?
In the last case, even if you are still in the U.S. think about whether the work you are involved with involves local communities or is knowledge from the top?
• Read the assigned reading and even if you are not in a developing country, think about the argument the writer is making, and what you would bring to that conversation
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