Question for my social activist flisties

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When did the term "privilege" (with respect to *isms) come into popular use? I personally first heard it on the internet through BtVS fandom, so less than 3 years ago (and have never heard anyone use it in real life), but y'know, I'm slow. Anyone know when it started being used?

The reason I ask is because I'm reading this article for class, which is basically about how white privilege and economic privilege make certain groups "politically invisible," except it never actually uses the word "privilege," and I'm sure it was written way before that became common terminology, but it made me curious as to when that actually happened.

Comments

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

I first heard it at a faculty meeting where we were asked to reflect on white privilege. I want to say that meeting happened in the mid-1990's. But it could have been as late as 2000.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I heard it (or it registered on my consciousness as a new "thing" to know) until the last Writer Con. Obviously, it had been around a while by then.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

No clue about the topic of the actual post, but it never ceases to amaze me how much smarter and more self aware the Buffy fandom has made me in terms of social justice and feminist issues. Go us, because I think we could all use a "go us" right now.

[dipenates.livejournal.com]

Peggy Mitchell published "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies" in 1988.

(ETA: On which foundation so many of the 'unpacking privilege' internet-based checklists / guides seem to be based.)