Tim Wise

Dispatches from the Race War (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today.

"Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and exhorts them to combat racist power structures."-The New York Times

"What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks' truth to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch, but to recognize their own role in co-creating a fair, inclusive, truly democratic society."-Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

"Tim Wise's new book gives us the tools we need to reach people whose understanding of our country is white instead of right. And without pissing them off!"-James W. Loewen, author, Lies My Teacher Told Me

"Tim Wise's latest is more urgent than ever. "-Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy

"A white social justice advocate clearly shows how racism is America's core crisis. A trenchant assessment of our nation's ills."-*Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

" [Dispatches from the Race War] is a bracing call to action in a moment of social unrest."-Publishers Weekly

"Dispatches from the Race War exhorts white Americans to join the struggle for a fairer society."-Chapter 16

In this collection of essays, renowned social-justice advocate Tim Wise confronts racism in contemporary America. Seen through the lens of major flashpoints during the Obama and Trump years, Dispatches from the Race War faces the consequences of white supremacy in all its forms. This includes a discussion of the bigoted undertones of the Tea Party's backlash, the killing of Trayvon Martin, current day anti-immigrant hysteria, the rise of openly avowed white nationalism, the violent policing of African Americans, and more.

Wise devotes a substantial portion of the book to explore the racial ramifications of COVID-19, and the widespread protests which followed the police murder of George Floyd.

Concise, accessible chapters, most written in first-person, offer an excellent source for those engaged in the anti-racism struggle. Tim Wise's proactive approach asks white allies to contend with-and take responsibility for-their own role in perpetuating racism against Blacks and people of color.

Dispatches from the Race War reminds us that the story of our country is the history of racial conflict, and that our future may depend on how-or if-we can resolve it. "To accept racism is quintessentially American," writes Wise, "to rebel against it is human. Be human."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780872868373
• Artikelnr.: 59221631

Autorenporträt

Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, "A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown," is among the nation's most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences throughout North America, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of conferences, and to community groups across the nation about methods for dismantling racism.

Wise's antiracism work traces back to his days as a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa. After graduation, he threw himself into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From there, he became a community organizer in New Orleans' public housing, and a policy analyst for a children's advocacy group focused on combatting poverty and economic inequity. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Smith College School of Social Work, in Northampton, MA., and from 1999-2003 was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, TN.

Wise is the author of seven previous books, including Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America and has been featured in several documentaries, including "The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America," and "White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America." Wise is one of five persons-including President Barack Obama-interviewed for a video exhibition on race relations in America, featured at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.

His media presence includes dozens of appearances on CNN, MSNBC and NPR, feature interviews on ABC's 20/20 and CBS's 48 Hours, as well as videos posted on YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms that have received over 20 million views. His podcast, "Speak Out with Tim Wise," features bi-weekly interviews with activists, scholars and artists about movement building and strategies for social change.

Inhaltsangabe

Dispatches from the Race War: Table of Contents
Preface: Racism and Inequality in a Time of Illness and Uprising
Introduction: America’s Longest War
 
 I. POST-RACIAL BLUES: RACE AND REALITY IN THE OBAMA YEARS
Good, Now Back to Work: The meaning (and limits) of the Obama victory
Denial is a River Wider than the Charles: Implicit bias and the burden of
blackness in the age of Obama
Harpooning the Great White Wail: Reflections on racism and right-wing
buffoonery
Imagine for a Moment: Protest, privilege, and the power of whiteness
If it Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck: Racism and the death of
respectable conservatism
Bullying Pulpit: The problematic politics of personal responsibility
No Innocence Left to Kill:Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and coming of
age in an unjust nation
Killing One Monster, Unleashing Another: Reflections on revenge and revelry
in America
You Will Know Them by the Eyes of Their Whites: Ferguson and white denial
 
II. TRUMPISM AND THE POLITICS OF PREJUDICE
Discovering the Light in Darkness: Donald Trump and the future of America
Reeking City on a Dung Heap: The dangerous worldview of Donald Trump
Patriotism Is for Black People: Colin Kaepernick and the politics of
protest
If It’s a Civil War, Pick a Side: Charlottesville and the meaning of
Trumpism
Making a Murderer (Politically Profitable): Immigration and hysteria in
Trumplandia
Racist Is too Mild a Term: The President is a white nationalist
The Face of American Terrorism Is White
Weaponized Nostalgia: The evil genius of Donald Trump
 
III.   2020 VISION—AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS?
Americanism is a Pandemic’s BFF: Why the U.S. has been so vulnerable to
COVID-19
It’s Not a Death Cult, It’s a Mass Murder Movement: The homicidal
indifference of MAGA nation
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: COVID and Trumpism reveal America’s true
virus
Bad Will Hunting: The killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the rituals of white
supremacy
This Bias is Not Implicit: The problem isn’t fear, it’s contempt for black
humanity
It’s not the Apples, It’s the Orchard: Police violence is neither new nor
rare
Violence Never Works? America Would Beg to Differ
Nobody’s Perfect—So Why Do We Need Black People to Be? Demanding angelic
victims of police violence is absurd
 
IV. CONFRONTING WHITE DENIAL, DEFLECTION, AND FRAGILITY
White Denial Is as American as Apple Pie
What, Me Racist? Understanding why your intentions are not the point
Weaponizing Appalachia: Race, class and the art of white deflection
Chicago Is Not a Punch Line (or an Alibi): White deflection and
black-on-black crime
Identity Politics Are Not the Problem, Identity-Based Oppression Is
Farrakhan Is Not the Problem: Exploring the appeal of white America’s
bogeyman
You May Not Be Racist but Your Ideology Is: Why modern conservatism is
racist
Who’s the Snowflake Now? White fragility in a time of turmoil
 
V. MIS-REMEMBER WHEN: RACE AND AMERICAN AMNESIA 
Dream Interrupted: The sanitizing of Martin Luther King Jr.
Holocaust Denial, American-Style
History, Memory, and the Implicit Racism of Right-Wing Moralizing
Europe Didn’t Send Their Best Either: Immigration and the lies we tell
about America (and ourselves)
Racism Is Evil but Not Un-American
MAGA Is a Slur and Your Hat Is Hateful
Statues Make Good Rubble: An open letter to my fellow Southerners
 
VI.   ARMED WITH A LOADED FOOTNOTE: DEBUNKING THE RIGHT
Cheap White Whine: Debunking reverse discrimination and white victimhood
Rationalizing Unequal Policing: Exposing the right’s war on justice
Hey Conservatives, Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings Either: Debunking
the lie of welfare dependence
Baby Mama Drama: Debunking the Black Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate Crisis
Debunking the Model Minority Myth: Using Asian Americans as pawns in a
white game
Intelligence and Its Discontents: Debunking IQ and the absurdity of race
science
Nazis Make Lousy Researchers: Debunking the myth of Jewish power
 
VII.      WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Not Ready to Make Nice: The fallacy of outreach and understanding
Checking Privilege (While Not Being an Asshole)
Spreading Solidarity in Pandemic Times
Coalition building in a post-corona America
“Listen to Black People” is Completely Correct and Entirely Insufficient: A
mplifying Black voices does not mean refusing to use our own      
Taking Personal Responsibility Seriously: Rejecting white saviorism and
embracing allyship
Forget STEM, We Need MESH: Civics education and the future of America
Who’s Afraid of De-Policing? Why a radical sounding idea isn’t as crazy as
you think
Hope Is a Noun, Justice Is a Verb, and Nouns are Not Enough
 
 
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