What Explains Why White People Have Worse Mental Health?

Novel research offers some insight into an old paradox.

"Depressed" by Sander van der Wel is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

In 1989, the feminist scholar Peggy McIntosh wrote an essay titled “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” McIntosh, who is white, described white people as carrying an “invisible package of unearned assets” that they can “count on cashing in each day.”

No matter what your sta…