White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
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基本信息·出版社：Soft Skull Press
·页码：176 页
·出版日期：2007年12月
·ISBN：1933368993
·条形码：9781933368993
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：像我一样的白人: 一个白人孩子对种族歧视的沉思
内容简介 Using stories from his own life, anti-racist activist and Fortune 500 racial awareness trainer Tim Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people of colour, but also hurts, in relative terms, those who are ""white like him"". Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of ""whiteness"" and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of colour, but whites as well. Using stories in place of stale statistics, he weaves a narrative that is readable, scholarly, analytical and accessible.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly Activist, lecturer and director of the new Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE), Wise works from anecdote rather than academic argument to recount his path to greater cultural awareness in a colloquial, matter-of-fact quasi-memoir that urges white people to fight racism "for
our own sake." Sparing neither family nor self, Wise recalls a racist rant his antiracist mother once delivered, racial epithets uttered by his Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother and the "conditioning" that leads him to wonder, for a split-second, if people of color are truly qualified for their jobs. He considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people's favor: his grandmother's house, which served as collateral for a loan he needed for college, for instance, was in a neighborhood that had formerly barred blacks. Resistance to racism, Wise declares, requires support (it's better for a group to speak out against racial tracking than for one "crazy radical" to do it), and that's presumably part of what this volume means to provide. And while Wise sometimes falls victim to sweeping judgments—the act of debating racial profiling, he declares, is "white-identified," because only whites have the luxury to look at life or death issues as a battle of wits—his candor is invigorating.
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