Peggy McIntosh 
On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning [PDF ebook] 
Selected Essays 1981–2019

From one of the world’s leading voices on white privilege and anti-racism work comes this collection of essays on complexities of privilege and power. Each of the four parts illustrates Peggy Mc Intosh’s practice of combining personal and systemic understandings to focus on power in unusual ways. Part I includes Mc Intosh’s classic and influential essays on privilege, or systems of unearned advantage that correspond to systems of oppression. Part II helps readers to understand that feelings of fraudulence may be imposed by our hierarchical cultures rather than by any actual weakness or personal shortcomings. Part III presents Mc Intosh’s Interactive Phase Theory, highlighting five different world views, or attitudes about power, that affect school curriculum, cultural values, and decisions on taking action. The book concludes with powerful insights from SEED, a peer-led teacher development project that enables individuals and institutions to work collectively toward equity and social justice. This book is the culmination of forty years of Mc Intosh’s intellectual and organizational work.