Tim Wise - White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

March 23, 2010 7:30 PM

EJ Thomas Hall

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Development, Institute for Teaching and Center of Conflict Management.

Among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., Tim Wise has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor, Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown University.

Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White, a collection of his essays, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male, and Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama.

This lecture is part of Rethinking Race: Black, White and Beyond.