[PDF] White Like Me eBook

Author : Tim Wise
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1458780910

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Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev's How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of whiteness, and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly; analytical and yet accessible.

Author : Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807047422

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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

Author : Gail Lukasik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 151072415X

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White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.

Author : Tim Wise
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780872865006

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How Barack Obama's rise is reshaping the meaning of race in the United States today.

Author : Tim J. Wise
Publisher : Counterpoint Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781593764258

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Tim 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. The book shows the breadth and depth of the phenomenon within institutions such as education, employment, housing, criminal justice, and healthcare. By critically assessing the magnitude of racial privilege and its enormous costs, Wise provides a rich memoir that will inspire activists, educators, or anyone interested in understanding the way that race continues to shape the experiences of people in the U.S. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and scholarly, analytical and accessible.--From publisher description.

Author : Tim Wise
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1593763042

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In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, activist Tim Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and the ways in which white Americans reap enormous privileges from it. The essays included in this collection span the last ten years of Wise’s writing and cover all the hottest racial topics of the past decade: affirmative action, Hurricane Katrina, racial tension in the wake of the Duke lacrosse scandal, white school shootings, racial profiling, phony racial unity in the wake of 9/11, and the political rise of Barack Obama. Wise’s commentaries make forceful yet accessible arguments that serve to counter both white denial and complacency—two of the main obstacles to creating a more racially equitable and just society. Speaking Treason Fluently is a superbly crafted collection of Wise’s best work, which reveals the ongoing salience of race in America today and demonstrates that racial privilege is not only a real and persistent problem, but one that ultimately threatens the health and well-being of the entire society.

Author : Jane Moore
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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“The baby’s cute . . . why don’t you adopt her?” “If her own mother doesn’t want her, why would I?” This conversation took place between two nurses in the delivery room right aft er I was born to a 16-year old unmarried mother. This was a precursor of the kind of struggle my life would be unti l I stood up and shouted, “I AM SOMEBODY!” Why did it take me so long??? I don’t want you to think I am harping on the bad things that happened in my life. Despite everything, I am an incredibly positi ve person, who has taken a licking and kept right on ti cking! My saving grace is mentoring, and standing up for those who just need someone to stand up for them. Maybe one of these days, I will be more able to stand up for myself. I’m getti ng there. This is just my life, honey, simply the way it is. I am telling you my story. This is a story about success, and giving back to a community that mostly kicked me in the teeth.

Author : Marguerite W. Davol
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 080750775X

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Kyra is Christy's best friend from the youth center. Matt and Julie are Christy's best friends on her block. When Kyra's African-American family moves into Christy's white neighborhood, Christy learns a hard lesson about prejudice.