Personal Experience of Privilege and Stigma

Society frames some racial and ethnic groups in a more positive light than others, thus affording preferential treatment to the members of those groups. The term, privilege, is used to refer to this preferential treatment. Privilege is the advantage given to some statuses. Wellesley College professor, Peggy McIntosh, first created the term in 1988, while teaching courses in women’s studies. In the “Framework Essay” for Section II in your course text, the author describes McIntosh’s personal account of her observations. She learned that men often are granted advantages, such as higher compensation at work, because of their gender. By extending the analysis to race, she discovered that people often assume that white people are not poor or violent and do not engage in criminal behavior.

While privilege results in preferential treatment, stigma results in negative treatment. In many ways, privilege and stigma are considered to be opposite. A stigma is an attribute for which someone is considered bad, unworthy, or discredited. For example, a black person is more likely than a white person to be under surveillance while shopping. In McIntosh’s account, blacks were also viewed as lazy. Asian Americans were seen as shy and yielding.

With these thoughts in mind: 1 page, No Plagiarism ,APA style, and must be cited with references.

(1). Write a description of a situation in which someone experienced positive treatment due to privilege related to perceived racial or ethnic identity.( 2). Explain why the individual was perceived as having privilege.(3) Post a description of a situation in which someone experienced negative treatment due to stigma related to perceived racial or ethnic identity. (4) Explain why the individual was perceived as having stigma. (5). Finally, explain how the treatment differed in the situation representing privilege versus the situation representing stigma.

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