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Wise: Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena
Znet Article, October, 18 2007
Tim Wise
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Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena
Wise: Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena
Znet Article, October, 18 2007
Tim Wise
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Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena
Wise: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
Book, October, 12 2007
Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also bene...
Wise: Reflections On The Psychopathology Of Racist Thinking
Znet Article, June, 03 2007
Tim Wise
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Reflections On The Psychopathology Of Racist Thinking
Wise: Sins of Omission
Commentary, July, 07 2006
Tim Wise
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It seems as though whenever black folks do something wrong, everyone hears about it. If gang violence heats up in America's inner cities, for example, you can bet it'll be front-page news. Unacceptably high dropout rates? Yep, you can read all abo...
Wise: What Kind of Card is Race?
Znet Article, April, 26 2006
Tim Wise
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Recently, I was asked by someone in the audience of one of my speeches, whether or not I believed that racism--though certainly a problem--might also be something conjured up by people of color in situations where the charge was inappropriate. In ...
Wise: Chocolate City?
Znet Article, January, 30 2006
Tim Wise
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If you're looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites about racism are often so difficult in this country, you need only know this: when the subject is race and racism, whites and blacks are often not talking about the same ...
Wise: Chocolate City?
Commentary, January, 28 2006
Tim Wise
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If you're looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites
Wise: Racism, Free Speech and the College Campus
Commentary, January, 11 2006
Tim Wise
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As has been the case for as long as I can recall, an American college campus is once again embroiled in controversy over the expression of racism in its hallowed halls, and what it may seek to do in response.
Wise: Racism, Free Speech and the College Campus Part 2
Znet Article, December, 30 2005
Tim Wise
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Recently, I published an essay concerning racism on college campuses and the issue of free speech. The commentary was prompted by news that Andrei Chira, a freshman at Bellarmine University, in Louisville, has been wearing a neo-Nazi armband aroun...
Wise: Racism, Free Speech, and the College Campus
Znet Article, December, 27 2005
Tim Wise
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As has been the case every year for as long as I can recall, an American college campus is once again embroiled in controversy over the expression of racism in its hallowed halls, and what it may seek to do in response. This time the place is Bel...
Wise: Not Everyone Felt That Way
Commentary, September, 12 2005
Tim Wise
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When I was a kid, I remember my maternal grandmother defending Richard Nixon for the crimes of Watergate, because, as she put it: "He didn't do anything any worse than what every other President did." Knowing, even at six, that this was hardly a m...
Wise: A God With Whom I am Not Familiar
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
Tim Wise
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This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don't know me. But I know you. I watched you as you held hands with your tablemates at the restaurant where we b...
Wise: Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise
Znet Article, September, 02 2005
Tim Wise
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Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise
Wise: Faith of the Faithless
Znet Article, August, 03 2005
Tim Wise
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As a child reared in the very buckle of America's Bible belt, I can clearly remember hearing people speak of how Jesus was "in their hearts," and was the cornerstone of their lives. Coming from most, the sincerity with which such proclamations wer...
Wise: "Don't Know Much About (Black) History"
Commentary, July, 25 2005
Tim Wise
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Recently, Philadelphia became the first American city to require its high school students to complete a course in African American history as a condition of graduation. And predictably, in the "City of Brotherly Love," there is already an outcry o...
Wise: A Double Standard Worth Keeping
Commentary, May, 30 2005
Tim Wise
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As soon as Oklahoma University's baseball coach Larry Cochell was fired recently, for using the n-word during off-camera conversations with two ESPN reporters, I knew instinctively what some were likely to say. Though I am far from psychic, it har...
Wise: Playing Our Race Card: Reflections on Reverse Discrimination
Commentary, April, 21 2005
Tim Wise
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Perhaps it would do us some good to put things in perspective.
Wise: White Like Me, Interview
Znet Article, January, 14 2005
Tim Wise
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1. Can you tell ZNet, please, what your book, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, is about? What is it trying to communicate? White Like Me is an examination of what it means to be white, particularly, though not solely in t...
Wise: Race to Our Credit
Commentary, January, 09 2005
Tim Wise
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Sometimes it can be difficult, having a conversation with those whose political views are so diametrically opposed to one's own.
