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Tim Wise, anti-racism activist

12/7/2011

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Writer Tim Wise is a long-time soldier in the fight against racism in the US.  He is a lecturer and author who writes powerful, rigorously-researched and well-developed essays and articles, which you can find on his website.  Wise is a white Southerner who forcefully articulates the need for active involvement of white people in the fight against racism.  As a white Southerner myself, committed to same battle, he is one of my heroes.

From the website FAQ's page:
"White privilege refers to any advantage, opportunity, benefit, head start, or general protection from negative societal mistreatment, which persons deemed white will typically enjoy, but which others will generally not enjoy. These benefits can be material (such as greater opportunity in the labor market, or greater net worth, due to a history in which whites had the ability to accumulate wealth to a greater extent than persons of color), social (such as presumptions of competence, creditworthiness, law-abidingness, intelligence, etc.) or psychological (such as not having to worry about triggering negative stereotypes, rarely having to feel out of place, not having to worry about racial profiling..."


Books by Tim Wise:
  • Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (January, 2012 City Lights Open Media)
  • White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (2011, Counterpoint Press)
  • Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat From Racial Equity (2010, City Lights Open Media)
  • Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male (2010, Tim Wise)
  • Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama (2009, Open Media)
  • Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (2005, Routledge, Taylor & Francis)
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