Tim M Wise

White Lies Matter: Race, Crime and the Politics of Fear (City Lights Open Media)

“[Wise’s] work is revolutionary, and those who react negatively are simply afraid of hearing the truth”—Robin D.G. Kelley“Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today.”—Michael Eric DysonWith stories of police misconduct and the shooting of unarmed people of color a permanent fixtu...

Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America (City Lights Open Media)

"Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that ex...

Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male

In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, activist Tim Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and the ways in which white Americans reap enormous privileges from i...

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasi...

Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media)

Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era. Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to affirmativ...

Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (City Lights Open Media)

White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflect...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

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....

Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture)

Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "racial preference" is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of educa...

Tim Wise

Timothy Jacob Wise is a American, anti-racist activist and writer. He has lectured since 1995 at over 600 college campuses across the US. He has trained teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law...

White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

Affirmative Action: Racial Preference In Black And White