Tim Wise White Like Me Summary
Tim Wise, the author of White Like Me talks about how he explored racial identity and whiteness influence the lives of white Americans by investigating how they have impacted in his own life. He investigated on what it means to be white in a nation that’s created for the benefits of those who are white like him, and how privilege flows into every institutional arrangement from education to employment to justice system. Wise then talks about the ways that white privilege can finally harm its recipients in the long run and make progressive social change less likely. His personal stories makes the case that racial inequity and white privilege are real and persistent threats to personal and collective well-being that resistance to white supremacy