Digital Democracy readings
This week, I was especially struck by the resonance of the readings with Peggy McIntosh’s famous essay “White Privilege and Male Privilege.” McIntosh’s point is that racism occurs not only in the ways that specific groups are underempowered, but also how other groups are systematically overempowered by being encouraged “to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal.” Moreover, McIntosh is attempting to highlight how ordinary, everyday experiences are emblematic of systemic racism.
These points were illustrated clearly in Safiya Umoja Noble’s description in “Missed Connections: What Search Engines Say About Women” of using Google to … Continue Reading