White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McInt

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack "I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group" Peggy McIntosh Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of while privilege that was similarly denied and protected. I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

God's Debris God's Debris is the first non-Dilbert, non-humor book by best-selling author Scott Adams. Adams describes God's Debris as a thought experiment wrapped in a story. It's designed to make your brain spin around inside your skull. Imagine that you meet a very old man who—you eventually realize—knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of life: quantum physics, evolution, God, gravity, light psychic phenomenon, and probability—in a way so simple, so novel, and so compelling that it all fits together and makes perfect sense. What does it feel like to suddenly understand everything? You may not find the final answer to the big question, but God's Debris might provide the most compelling vision of reality you will ever read. It has no violence or sex, but the ideas are powerful and not appropriate for readers under fourteen.

Entertainment | Mental health novel up for prize An author who "wrote herself" out of a psychiatric hospital has been nominated for the Orange Prize for new writers. Clare Allan, who spent a decade in the mental health system, made the shortlist for her debut novel Poppy Shakespeare, based on her experiences. "I had to resist the staff who treated my novelist aspirations as proof that I was delusional," the 39-year-old said. The other nominees for the prize, to be awarded in June, are Pakistani Roopa Farooki and Canadian Karen Connelly. Allan, whose debut novel is billed as Catch-22 meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, gained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia after leaving hospital. She became ill after moving to London in her early twenties to pursue her dream of becoming an author, but stopped writing and eating. 'Poor treatment' "You are not valued as a human being, it's not wonder hardly anyone gets better," she said of her time in hospital. The Orange prizes for fiction and new writers honour female writing.