Name: Dispatches from the Race War, Paperback/Tim Wise
Brand: City Lights Books
Price: 82.95 RON
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Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today. "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 . Unflinchingly, and page after page, Wise calls out a brutal truth, one unwelcome to so many white people: The racial trauma playing out across this nation, hour after hour, day after day, is inflicted--be it actively or unwittingly--by them."-- 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. Wise comments on a host of events that bear witness to pervasive racism, including reactions to Barack Obama's election, Henry Louis Gates' arrest after being mistaken as a burglar, the rise of the militant tea party, the killing of Black men by police, and the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. 'The biases that ended George Floyd's life were explicit, ' Wise