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

by Wise, Tim

• ISBN13: 9781593762070
• ISBN10: 1593762070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me, activist and educator Tim Wise examines the ways in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States.

Author Biography

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the United States

Table of Contents

Introduction-Why Treason?	p. 1
Challenging White Denial (in Four Parts)	p. 9
Minimization	p. 15
Uh-Obama: Racism, White Voters, and the Myth of Color-Blindness	p. 15
What Kind of Card is Race? The Absurdity (and Consistency) of White Denial	p. 24
(Proto)Typical White Denial: Reflections on Racism and Uncomfortable Realities	p. 37
The Oprah Effect: Black Success, White Denial, and the Reality of Racism	p. 45
Majoring in Minstrelsy: White Students, Blackface, and the Failure of Mainstream Multiculturalism	p. 63
Racism, White Liberals, and the Limits of Tolerance	p. 72
More of a Thud, Really: Racism, Crash, and the Perpetuation of White Denial	p. 80
Rationalization	p. 93
Rationalizing the Irrational: Racism and the Fallacy of Personal Experience	p. 93
Working for the Man Every Night and Day: Black Conservatives and the Politics of Self-Abuse	p. 107
A God with Whom I Am Not Familiar	p. 117
They Shoot Black Men, Don't They? Sean Bell and the Internal (and Eternal) "Logic" of Racism	p. 122
The Tyranny of Common Sense: Examining the Faulty Logic of "Terrorist" Profiling	p. 128
No, Not Everyone Felt That Way: Reflections on Racism and History	p. 133
Deflection	p. 140
Passing the Buck and Missing the Point: Don Imus, White Denial, and Racism in America	p. 140
Situational Ethics, Conservative Style	p. 151
Personal Responsibility Is a Two-Way Street: Bill Cosby and the Pathology of Passing the Buck	p. 155
Selling the Police: Reflections on Heroism and Hype	p. 159
Racism, Free Speech, and the College Campus	p. 165
Of Immigrants and "Real" Amurkans: Reflections on the Rage of the Ridiculous	p. 175
Competing Victimization	p. 183
On White Pride and Other Delusions	p. 183
A Particularly Cheap White Whine: Racism, Scholarships, and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood	p. 195
Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Indignation: Reflections on the Manufacturing of "Reverse" Racism	p. 203
When Blacks Attack! Reflections on White Victimology and the Ironies of Institutional Racism	p. 209
On the Making of Undeserving Martyrs: Fact and Fiction in the Duke Lacrosse Case	p. 216
Of Bigots and Broken Records: Reflections on the Psychopathology of Racist Thinking	p. 224
Confronting White Privilege	p. 235
The Real Face of Racial Preference	p. 239
Whites Swim in Racial Preference	p. 239
Default Position: Reflections on the Brain-Rotting Properties of Privilege	p. 244
The Power of Perspectivism	p. 251
Of National Lies and Racial Amnesia: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Audacity of Truth	p. 251
Breaking the Cycle of White Dependence: A Modest Call for Majority Self-Help	p. 264
Anywhere but Here: Examining the Crimes of Thee, but Not of Me	p. 269
Some Folks Never Felt Safe: The Truth about National Unity	p. 273
Don't Know Much about (Black) History: School Curricula and the Myth of a Common Narrative	p. 278
Reagan, Race, and Remembrance: Reflections on the American Divide	p. 283
Rebels without a Clue: Racism, Neo-Confederacy, and the Raising of Historical Illiterates	p. 289
Bill of Whites: Historical Memory through the Racial Looking Glass	p. 298
Preferring Our Violence Wholesale: Riots and Destruction in Black and White	p. 302
Home Runs, Heroes, and Hypocrisy: Performance Enhancement in Black and White	p. 307
Measuring the Costs	p. 318
Overclass Blues: Class, Race, and the Ironies of Privilege	p. 318
Collateral Damage: Poor Whites and the Unintended Consequences of Racial Privilege	p. 325
School Shootings and White Denial	p. 331
We Are All Collateral Damage Now: Reflections on War as Emotional Botox	p. 335
Rethinking Superiority: Reflections on Whiteness and the Cult of "Progress"	p. 343
Conclusion-Being In (But Not Of) This Skin	p. 353
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