White Like me : : Reflections on Race From a Privileged son
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Introduction to the Third edition -- Preface -- Born to belonging -- Awakenings -- Middle passage -- Higher learning -- Louisiana Goddam* -- Professional development -- Home and away -- Chocolate pain, vanilla indignation -- Parenthood -- Redemption.
"With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is part memoir, 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." -- Publisher's description
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PUBLISHED
Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, [2011]
Year Published: 2011
Description: 271 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781593764258
1593764251
SUBJECTS
Wise, Tim J.
Racism.
White people -- Social conditions.
United States -- Race relations.