Category: White Like Me

The White Like Me video is a documentary on the history of race and privilege in the United States driven by Tim Wise, a white man from Nashville Tennessee who wrote the book White Like Me. Time Wise was exposed to diversity from an early age as his parents thought it beneficial for their sonContinue reading White Like Me →

I found it interesting how much growing up around black people affected Tim Wise’s disposition towards race.  I feel like it points at least in part towards contact theory which implies that with contact with those different from us, improves inter group relations.  I think it’s with this foundation that Tim Wise was able toContinue reading White Like Me →

This video segment narrated by anti-racist educator and advocate, Tim Wise, explored avenues in our society where there was (and still is) vast disparities between races. The video hit on topics, like the War on Drugs, the prison system, education, housing, and other aspects of American society in which racial discrimination has been a topicContinue reading White Like Me →

This video was a nice compliment to the episodes of “Race: The Power of Illusion” that we watched as well as the discussions we’ve been having in class. It touched on many of the same concepts such as the racism that is subtly written in many of our country’s historical documents, the differences in opportunityContinue reading White Like Me Blog Post →

In White Like Me, Time Wise discusses white privilege and our societies misconceptions about racism. He addresses what it means to be white, laws that pumps wealth into white society, our criminal justice system, welfare recipients, and finally a colorblind society. I enjoyed this film a lot because I think it brought more modern topicsContinue reading White Like Me →

White Like Me was a segment done by anti-racism scholar Tim Wise. He addresses white privilege, the criminal justice system and mass incarceration, and the misconceptions that racism is over, there is such thing as reverse racism, and that colorblindness is the solution. This video connected really well with the Race: The Power of anContinue reading White Like Me →

I really enjoyed this video. I think it had multiple connections to the previous episodes of Race: The Power of an Illusion especially in describing the history of racial injustice in the US. I also enjoyed how this video discussed more present racial issues like the election of President Obama, the tea party, and also welfare inContinue reading White Like Me →

I think the video was effective at starting the conversation about white privilege. I believe that our nation has made substantial progress in eliminating some aspects of racism and discrimination, but we still have a long way to go. We have made advancements since times when our country only gave citizenship to “free white people”,Continue reading White Like Me →

    Tim Wise, a white anti-racist educator and advocate, put together a nuanced understanding of the effects institutionalized racism still has today in the United States. Time Wise’s parents sent him to a predominantly black school because they wanted him to have a more racially open minded environment along with his education. Yet thereContinue reading White Like Me →

White Like Me explores the complexities of racism and clearly contextualises the definitions of what it means to be black and what it means to be white. Whiteness is seen as a privilege that is conspicuous to those who are not white but makes but a subtle difference for those who are white. It isContinue reading White Like Me →