Tim Wise
Tim Wise | |
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Alma mater | Tulane University |
Occupation(s) | Anti-racism activist, writer |
Children | 2 |
Website | timwise |
Timothy Jacob Wise (born October 4, 1968)[1] is an American activist and writer on the topic of race.[2] He is a consultant who provides anti-racism lectures to institutions.[3]
Early life and education
Wise was born in
Career
After graduating from Tulane in 1990, Wise started working as an anti-racism activist after receiving training from the New Orleans-based People's Institute for Survival and Beyond. Wise began initially as a youth coordinator, and then associate director, of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and
From 1999 to 2003, Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute.[14] Wise argues that racism in the United States is institutionalized due to past overt racism (and its ongoing effects) along with current-day discrimination. Although he concedes that personal, overt bias is less common than in the past (or at least less openly articulated), Wise argues that existing institutions continue to foster and perpetuate white privilege, and that subtle, impersonal, and even ostensibly race-neutral policies contribute to racism and racial inequality today.[15] Wise starred in a 2013 documentary entitled White Like Me, based on the book by Wise of the same name.[16]
Personal life
After living in New Orleans for ten years, Wise relocated to his native Nashville[17] in 1996. In 1998, he married and has two children.[17] Wise considers himself Jewish by heritage and ethnicity, but does not practice Judaism as a religion.[18] He is a critic of Israel, and philosophically opposed to Zionism, which he views as not only oppressive to non-Jews in Palestine, but detrimental to Jews as well, and counter to Jewish values.[19]
Written works
- ISBN 978-1-59376-425-8
- Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (ISBN 978-0-41595-049-7
- Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male (Soft Skull Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59376-207-0
- "The Pathology of Privilege: Racism" (PDF). Media Education Foundation. 2008. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009. Retrieved October 9, 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ISBN 978-0-87286-500-6.
- ISBN 978-0-87286-508-2.
- Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (City Lights Publishers, 2012) ISBN 978-0-87286-521-1.
- Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America (ISBN 978-0-87286-693-5.
- Dispatches from the Race War (ISBN 978-0-87286-809-0.[20]
References
- ISBN 9781608336159– via Google Books.
- ^ a b Bradley, Adam (March 29, 2009). "Book Reviews: 'Between Barack and a Hard Place' By Tim Wise | 'More Than Just Race' By William Julius Wilson". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
- ^ Cook, David (July 2009). "By The Color Of Their Skin: Tim Wise On The Myth Of A Postracial America". The Sun (403).
- ^ "Silly Nazis: Encounters With Idiots, from Childhood to the Present". Tim Wise. 2010-11-08. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
More to the point, and as regards myself, my Jewish lineage extends only on my Y-chromosome, that is to say, my paternal paternal line, as three of my four grandparents are of Northern European and decidedly non-Jewish derivation.
- ISBN 1-932360-68-9.
- ^ Tim Wise on Race and Racism in America; The Rock Newman Show (44-47 min. mark); December 10, 2014
- ^ "Class of 1986, Hillsboro H.S. (Nashville, TN)". Tree52. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
- ^ "Tim Wise". DePauw University. Archived from the original on June 21, 2010. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
- ^ Kadeem (May 7, 2011). "Power of One: Tim Wise". SUAVV. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012.
- S2CID 36135157.
- ^ Applebome, Peter (February 6, 1992). "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Republicans; Duke's Candidacy Raises Legal Questions About State Ballot Laws". The New York Times.
- Soft Skull Press; Pgs. 168-173
- ^ Mugo wa Macharia (October 22, 1996). "Reverse discrimination debate causes outrage". Golden Gater. Archived from the original on May 21, 1997.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "About". 29 May 2010.
- ^ McLarin, Kim (September 3, 2006). "MODERN LOVE; Race Wasn't an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me". The New York Times.
- ^ Harris, Aisha (August 16, 2013). "Are You White? Then You Should Probably Watch This". Slate.
- ^ a b Cook, David (July 2009). "By The Color Of Their Skin, Tim Wise On The Myth Of A Postracial America". The Sun.
- ^ Time Wise website: "Responding to a Young Reactionary: White Privilege, Judaism and the Making of Sloppy Analogies" March 5, 2015
- ^ "Zionism articles". TimWise.org. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
- ^ "The Book".
External links
- Official website
- Tim Wise at IMDb