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White Like Me
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 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 readable and yet scholarly, analytical and yet accessible.
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SaraBeagle
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List found at http://www.charisbooksandmore.com/understanding-and-dismantling-racism-booklist-...
The page has a list for children and teens as well.

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Pickpick

a book that definitely requires honest and brave conversation.

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kklemaster
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"there is redemption in struggle."

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SaraBeagle
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Pickpick

I'm a fan of anything Wise writes- so direct and inspiring. "There is something to be said for confronting the inevitable choice one must make in this life between collaborating with or resisting in justice... Indeed it is one of the most important choices we will ever be asked to make as humans"

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SaraBeagle
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Acting as if nothing is happening, or at least nothing of real importance, has to be worse. It is the silence of the collaborator, the person who is unwilling or unable to see that they are in and of history, and that history has called them forth to make a choice, not to passively observe

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BooksForEmpathy
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Listening to this now. Very accessible and important to be reminded of every day.

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