Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable yet scholarly, analytical, and accessible.
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama's emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama's rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as ...
Unlike most books on the market that focus predominantly on white privilege in the labour market, this concise text takes a detailed look into this controversial but topical subject in all realms of education too. Wise compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned, when the term racial preference is used, ...
In this follow-up to "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son," Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and how white Americans reap privileges from the system of racial inequality.
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