September 17, 2004

The Privilege Walk Is Just One Step on the Road to Understanding Prejudice

To the Editor:

I applaud Travis McDade's desire to respond better to the learning needs of undergraduates of color ("For Resident Assistants, a Race for Inequality," The Chronicle Review, August 6). ...

However, exercises like the "privilege walk" can be a very effective method with which to introduce students to a specific knowledge base like social-theory models and concepts. Such exercises give students a multidimensional way of grappling with examples of institutional and