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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (New Edition)

by Tim Wise - £11.99  Soft Skull Press (2011)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781593764258 | ISBN 10: 1593764251

Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev's How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of "whiteness," and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly; analytical and yet accessible.

"White Like Me is the most important memoir by a white person about how race and racism affect everyday life since Lois Mark Stalvey's The Education of a WASP. And, as with Stalvey, after reading Wise, white readers are energized to join the fray and reduce racism in our society."
(James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me)

"(His)...is the clearest thinking on race I've seen in a long while written by a white writer...right up there with the likes of Howard Zinn and Herb Aptheker as far as I'm concerned..."
(Dr. Joyce King, Associate Provost, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY)

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