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What Explains Why White People Have Worse Mental Health?
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What Explains Why White People Have Worse Mental Health?

Novel research offers some insight into an old paradox.

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Zaid Jilani
Nov 24, 2021
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"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.”

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