4/16: COLORBLIND: THE RISE OF POST-RACIAL POLITICS AND THE RETREAT FROM RACIAL EQUITY with Tim Wise

THE RISE OF POST-RACIAL POLITICS AND THE RETREAT FROM RACIAL EQUITY

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He has been called “One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation,” by best-selling author and Professor Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown University. Wise, who was named one of “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,” by Utne Reader in 2010, has spoken in all 50 states of the U.S., on over 800 college and high school campuses, and to community groups across the nation. Wise has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, is a regular contributor to discussions about race on CNN, His latest book, Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, examines rising white anxiety in an increasingly multicultural nation. For more information, visit: timwise.org.

“Tim Wise is one of the few people, along with perhaps Frederick Douglass, who has ever really spoken honestly and forcefully to white people about themselves…”

—  - Charles Ogletree, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice