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 reflects the nation's diverse
cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute
the majority of the population, and with a black president in the
White House, whites are growing anxious. This anxiety has helped to
create the Tea Party movement, with its call to "take our country
back." By means of a racialized nostalgia for a mythological past,
the Right is enlisting fearful whites into its campaign for
reactionary social and economic policies. In urgent response, Tim
Wise has penned his most pointed and provocative work to date.
Employing the form of direct personal address, he points a finger
at whites' race-based self-delusion, explaining how such an agenda
will only do harm to the nation's people, including most whites. In
no uncertain terms, he argues that the hope for survival of
American democracy lies in the embrace of our multicultural past,
present and future. "Sparing neither family nor self...he considers
how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white
people's favor...His candor is invigorating."--Publishers Weekly
"One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of
white privilege in the nation."--Michael Eric Dyson "Tim Wise has
written another blockbuster! His new book, Dear White America:
Letter to a New Minority, is a cogent analysis of the problems of
race and inequality as well as a plea for those who harbor views
about race and racism to modify and indeed eliminate them. While
the book's title addresses white people, this is really a book for
anyone who is concerned about eliminating the issue of racial
disparity in our society. This is must read and a good
read."--Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., the Jesse Climenko Professor of
Law at Harvard Law School and the Executive Director of the Charles
Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. He is the author
of a number of books, including The Presumption of Guilt: The
Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in
America "Tim Wise is an American hero in the truest sense of the
term--he tells the truth, no matter how inconvenient that truth
might be. Dear White America is a desperately needed response to
the insidious mythology that pretends whites are oppressed and
people of color unduly privileged. In the process, it exposes how
new forms of racism have been deliberately embedded into our
supposedly 'color blind' culture. Read this book--but rest assured,
it's not for the faint of heart."--David Sirota, syndicated
columnist, radio host, author of Back to Our Future: How the 1980s
Explain the World We Live In Now "The foremost white analyst of
racism in America never fails to provide fresh takes as he
punctures myths and defenses."--World Wide Work Tim Wise is one of
the most prominent antiracist essayists, educators, and activists
in the United States. He is regularly interviewed by A-list media,
including CNN, C-SPAN, The Tavis Smiley Show, The Tom Joyner
Morning Show, Michael Eric Dyson's radio program, and many more.
His most recent books include Colorblind and Between Barack and a
Hard Place.
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