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White Like Me : Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son : the Remix by Wise, Tim J., Wise, Tim is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits, in relative terms, those who are white like him. He discusses how racial privilege can harm whites in the long run and make progressive social change less likely. He explores the ways in which whites can challenge their unjust privileges, and explains in clear and convincing language why it is in the best interest of whites themselves to do so. Using anecdotes instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly, analytical and yet accessible. From Publishers Weekly Activist, lecturer and director of the new Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE), Wise works from anecdote rather than academic argument to recount his path to greater cultural awareness in a colloquial, matter-of-fact quasi-memoir tha

Who reads White Like Me : Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son : the Remix?

Author

Wise, Tim J., Wise, Tim

Publisher

Soft Skull Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781593764708

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Self Help, Memoir