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White Like Me
- Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
- Narrated by: Tim Wise
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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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 listenable and yet scholarly, analytical and yet accessible.
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- Courtney
- 02-11-22
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This book is very insightful and refreshing. I agree with everything Tim Wise ‘stands for’, and fully believe he is an anti racist ally. For any white person looking to try and understand racism this is a great book. But has its limitations with the author not being of colour. Therefore not really fully understanding or being able to articulate the real pain and self hatred created by systemic racism. However in all fairness he does on many occasions acknowledge this.
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- ndala
- 15-07-20
it's a fresh perspective
if you are white and struggling in understanding what's going in the world and trying to understand some of the feelings and confusion you might be having... this book helps because it literally goes in depth and various view points.
if you're black it helps to direct your focus and just helps in letting you understand that what your facing is not new but different.
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