White like me : reflections on race from a privileged son / Tim Wise.

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"With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is part memoir, 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wise, Tim, 1968- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Soft Skull Press, [2011]
Edition:Remix : Revised and updated edition, [Third edition].
Subjects:
Wise, Tim J.
Wise, Tim, > 1968-
Racism > United States.
White people > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
Race relations.
Racism.
White people > Social condition.
United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Rascism.
Physical Description:xv, 271 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction to the Third edition
  • Preface
  • Born to belonging
  • Awakenings
  • Middle passage
  • Higher learning
  • Louisiana Goddam*
  • Professional development
  • Home and away
  • Chocolate pain, vanilla indignation
  • Parenthood
  • Redemption.