Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fears in America today. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks truth ... to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch, but to recognize their own role in co-creating ... a fair, inclusive, truly democratic society."-Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow"Tim Wises latest is more urgent than ever. Unflinchingly, and page after page, Wise calls out a brutal truth, one unwelcome to so many white people: The racial trauma playing out across this nation, hour after hour, day after day, is inflicted-be it actively or unwittingly-by them."-Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy"A white social justice advocate clearly shows how racism is Americas core crisis. Wise comments on a host of events that bear witness to pervasive racism, including reactions to Barack Obamas election, Henry Louis Gates arrest after being mistaken as a burglar, the rise of the militant tea party, the killing of Black men by police, and the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. The biases that ended George Floyds life were explicit, Wise writes. Even more, they were part of an institutional and systemic process, whereby unequal treatment of black and brown bodies and communities is normative. A trenchant assessment of our nations ills."-*Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewEssays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today.In this collection of essays, renowned social-justice advocate Tim Wise confronts racism in contemporary America. Seen through the lens of major flashpoints during the Obama and Trump years, Dispatches from the Race War faces the consequences of white supremacy in all its forms. This includes a discussion of the bigoted undertones of the Tea Partys backlash, the killing of Trayvon Martin, current day anti-immigrant hysteria, the rise of openly avowed white nationalism, the violent policing of African Americans, and more. Wise devotes a substantial portion of the book to explore the racial ramifications of COVID-19, and the widespread protests which followed the police murder of George Floyd. Concise, accessible chapters, most written in first-person, offer an excellent source for those engaged in the anti-racism struggle. Tim Wises proactive approach asks white allies to contend with-and take responsibility for-their own role in perpetuating racism against Blacks and people of color. Dispatches from the Race War reminds us that the story of our country is the history of racial conflict, and that our future may depend on how-or if-we can resolve it. "To accept racism is quintessentially American," writes Wise, "to rebel against it is human. Be human." Author Biography Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, "A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown," is among the nations most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences throughout North America, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of conferences, and to community groups across the nation about methods for dismantling racism.Wises antiracism work traces back to his days as a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa. After graduation, he threw himself into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From there, he became a community organizer in New Orleans public housing, and a policy analyst for a childrens advocacy group focused on combatting poverty and economic inequity. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Smith College School of Social Work, in Northampton, MA., and from 1999-2003 was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, TN.Wise is the author of seven previous books, includingDear White America: Letter to a New Minority, Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America and has been featured in several documentaries, including "The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America," and "White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America." Wise is one of five persons-including President Barack Obama-interviewed for a video exhibition on race relations in America, featured at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.His media presence includes dozens of appearances on CNN, MSNBC and NPR, feature interviews on ABCs 20/20 and CBSs 48 Hours, as well as videos posted on YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms that have received over 20 million views. His podcast, "Speak Out with Tim Wise," features bi-weekly interviews with activists, scholars and artists about movement building and strategies for social change. Table of Contents Dispatches from the Race War: Table of ContentsPreface: Racism and Inequality in a Time of Illness and UprisingIntroduction: Americas Longest War I. POST-RACIAL BLUES: RACE AND REALITY IN THE OBAMA YEARSGood, Now Back to Work: The meaning (and limits) of the Obama victoryDenial is a River Wider than the Charles: Implicit bias and the burden of blackness in the age of ObamaHarpooning the Great White Wail: Reflections on racism and right-wing buffooneryImagine for a Moment: Protest, privilege, and the power of whitenessIf it Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck: Racism and the death of respectable conservatismBullying Pulpit: The problematic politics of personal responsibilityNo Innocence Left to Kill:Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and coming of age in an unjust nationKilling One Monster, Unleashing Another: Reflections on revenge and revelry in AmericaYou Will Know Them by the Eyes of Their Whites: Ferguson and white denial II. TRUMPISM AND THE POLITICS OF PREJUDICEDiscovering the Light in Darkness: Donald Trump and the future of AmericaReeking City on a Dung Heap: The dangerous worldview of Donald TrumpPatriotism Is for Black People: Colin Kaepernick and the politics of protestIf Its a Civil War, Pick a Side: Charlottesville and the meaning of TrumpismMaking a Murderer (Politically Profitable): Immigration and hysteria in TrumplandiaRacist Is too Mild a Term: The President is a white nationalistThe Face of American Terrorism Is WhiteWeaponized Nostalgia: The evil genius of Donald Trump III. 2020 VISION—AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS?Americanism is a Pandemics BFF: Why the U.S. has been so vulnerable to COVID-19Its Not a Death Cult, Its a Mass Murder Movement: The homicidal indifference of MAGA nation Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: COVID and Trumpism reveal Americas true virusBad Will Hunting: The killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the rituals of white supremacyThis Bias is Not Implicit: The problem isnt fear, its contempt for black humanityIts not the Apples, Its the Orchard: Police violence is neither new nor rareViolence Never Works? America Would Beg to DifferNobodys Perfect—So Why Do We Need Black People to Be? Demanding angelic victims of police violence is absurd IV. CONFRONTING WHITE DENIAL, DEFLECTION, AND FRAGILITYWhite Denial Is as American as Apple PieWhat, Me Racist? Understanding why your intentions are not the pointWeaponizing Appalachia: Race, class and the art of white deflectionChicago Is Not a Punch Line (or an Alibi): White deflection and black-on-black crimeIdentity Politics Are Not the Problem, Identity-Based Oppression IsFarrakhan Is Not the Problem: Exploring the appeal of white Americas bogeymanYou May Not Be Racist but Your Ideology Is: Why modern conservatism is racistWhos the Snowflake Now? White fragility in a time of turmoil V. MIS-REMEMBER WHEN: RACE AND AMERICAN AMNESIA Dream Interrupted: The sanitizing of Martin Luther King Jr.Holocaust Denial, American-StyleHistory, Memory, and the Implicit Racism of Right-Wing MoralizingEurope Didnt Send Their Best Either: Immigration and the lies we tell about America (and ourselves)Racism Is Evil but Not Un-AmericanMAGA Is a Slur and Your Hat Is HatefulStatues Make Good Rubble: An open letter to my fellow Southerners VI. ARMED WITH A LOADED FOOTNOTE: DEBUNKING THE RIGHTCheap White Whine: Debunking reverse discrimination and white victimhoodRationalizing Unequal Policing: Exposing the rights war on justiceHey Conservatives, Facts Dont Care About Your Feelings Either: Debunking the lie of welfare dependenceBaby Mama Drama: Debunking the Black Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate CrisisDebunking the Model Minority Myth: Using Asian Americans as pawns in a white gameIntelligence and Its Discontents: Debunking IQ and the absurdity of race scienceNazis Make Lousy Researchers: Debunking the myth of Jewish power VII. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?Not Ready to Make Nice: The fallacy of outreach and understandingChecking Privilege (While Not Being an Asshole)Spreading Solidarity in Pandemic TimesCoalition building in a post-corona America"Listen to Black People" is Completely Correct and Entirely Insufficient: Amplifying Black voices does not mean refusing to use our own Taking Personal Responsibility Seriously: Rejecting white saviorism and embracing allyshipForget STEM, We Need MESH: Civics education and the future of AmericaWhos Afraid of De-Policing? Why a radical sounding idea isnt as crazy as you thinkHope Is a Noun, Justice Is a Verb, and Nouns are Not Enough About the Author Review Praise for Tim Wises Dispatches from the Race War"The volume appears at a post-Trump time when it may actually be possible to begin redressing centuries of legitimate Black grievances. It behooves the serious attention of anyone, of any racial or ethnic background, for whom fighting racism is a top personal and political priority."—Paul Von Blum, ScheerPost"Through clear examples, inscrutable logic, and the power of direct language, Wise challenges White Americans to identify and understand the racism inscribed in the very American project and in the everyday acts of being American."—Romi Mahajan, Countercurrents " . . . shares some of the clearest, most honest thinking about racism, inequality, and white privilege that you are ever likely to hear from a white man. Can we just put aside all the rationalizations and deflections to which we reflexively pivot and instead imagine what it must feel like to walk through life having to always think about how to behave so as not to scare white people, or so as not to trigger our contempt? he asks."—Joseph Barbato, NY Journal of Books Praise for Tim Wise"Tim Wise is a vanilla brother in the tradition of John Brown . . . "—Cornel West"One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation. He is a national treasure."—Michael Eric Dyson "(Wises) work is revolutionary, and those who react negatively are simply afraid of hearing the truth . . . "—Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of History, University of Southern California"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"The fate of this country depends on whites like yourself speaking the truth to those who dont want to hear it. In this, you are as one with the Biblical prophets. You are more likely to be condemned than lauded, and yet your words are no less important. So, keep speaking out. At the very least, some future archeologists sifting through the ashes of this civilization may be able to find evidence that there were some who offered truth as a cure for the disease that destroyed us."—Derrick Bell, Professor of Law, New York University"(His) is the clearest thinking on race Ive seen in a long while written by a white writer . . . right up there with the likes of historians Howard Zinn and Herb Aptheker as far as Im concerned."—Dr. Joyce King, Benjamin Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University"Sparing neither family nor self . . . he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white peoples favor . . . His candor is invigorating."—Publishers Weekly Promotional Tim will market the book heavily on social media to his 127,000 Twitter followers & his 325,000 Facebook followers, as well as via his podcast, Speak Out With Tim Wise, which has a growing following of about 30,000 monthly downloads, and his all-in schedule of book talks and lectures—about 60 per year.National Print Campaign: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, NY Review of Books, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, NY Review of Books, The Nation, The Tennessean, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Atlantic Monthly, Toronto Globe & Mail, Oregonian, Wall St Journal, Essence, Newsweek, Time [PW, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal] National Radio Campaign: Fresh Air, Democracy Now, NPR: All Things Considered & Talk of the Nation, Alternative Radio, Pacifica Network stations, Community & NPR affiliate radio stations around the countryTV: MSNBC: Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Lawrence ODonnell, Al Sharpton, and Rachel Maddow; CNN: Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo; CSPAN: Book TV; and the News Hour, among othersWeb: Medium.com, TomDispatch & The Root.com among others as well as promotion at the authors highly trafficked site Enormous traffic at his his Facebook/Twitter pages.National book tour Long Description Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of racial fears in America today. Focusing on race in America from the Obama years to the current Trump era, the pieces in this collection of short essays speak to the ways in which racism and racial inequity have continued to embroil the nation despite hopes that America had become "post-racial" with the election of its first black president. At a time of social, cultural, demographic transformation, and growing inequality, which pits white folks against people of color, it is more important than ever to offer a comprehensive examination of the nations racial conflict. This essay collection speaks to recurring racial themes in US society, like white denial and fragility, inadequate historical memory, and the manipulation of racial fears by politicians, helping readers to better understand the challenges we face in years to come. And, by exploring some of the movement-building and educational strategies we can deploy to address the current crisis, readers will gain a sense of hope that perhaps there is still time to salvage multiracial democracy. All the racial flashpoints of the past decade are covered here: the election of Barack Obama and the backlash to that election, the killing of Trayvon Martin and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement, Colin Kaepernicks bold move to kneel for the Pledge of Allegiance, the rise of Trumpism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and Charlottesville and the growth of white nationalist terrorism. The book is divided into six sections. The first set of essays covers the period of Barack Obamas presidency, while the second set explores Trumpism and its corrosive effect on the racial climate in America. The third set of essays, which spans the entire frame covered by the book, looks at the theme of white denial and fragility and responds to common deflections used by white folks (on the right and left alike) to avoid discussing race and racism. The fourth set examines historical memory and the dangers of misremembered (or never learned) historical truths about race in America. The fifth set of essays responds directly to common right-wing arguments about race in America and serves as a "debunking" chapter. Finally, the sixth set of essays explores directions for progressive movements and educators: how should we be thinking about race, movement building, elections, schools and community, and what are the tactical decisions we need to make to preserve multiracial pluralism? The book will feature an introduction framing 45 short previously published essays (some of them updated to reflect newer data or slightly stronger analysis) and at least one new essay in the final section. Review Quote Praise for Tim Wise "Tim Wise is a vanilla brother in the tradition of John Brown . . . "--Cornel West "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation. He is a national treasure."--Michael Eric Dyson "What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks truth . . . to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch, but to recognize their own role in co-creating what is either a fair, inclusive, truly democratic society or a society that is predicated on indifference towards those who are labeled as others truth . . ."--Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness "(Wises) work is revolutionary, and those who react negatively are simply afraid of hearing the truth . . . "--Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of History, University of South Excerpt from Book Excerpted from Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise PREFACE RACISM AND INEQUALITY IN A TIME OF ILLNESS AND UPRISING By the time you read these words, we will know the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. We will know whether American voters--or at least 75,000 people or so in a handful of key states--have re-elected Donald Trump for four more years or decided to end his time in office and return him to reality television. No matter the answer, this book will remain relevant, because the issues about which it is concerned pre-date his presidency and, if history is any guide, will continue to plague us long after he is gone. That said, this has been a strange time to compile a collection of essays on race and racism. With a man such as Trump in the White House, I knew as I began work on this volume how quickly events could change and how often race-related stories could emerge from an administration that, from the beginning, sought to divide the nation along lines of race, ethnicity, and religion, for political gain. Keeping up could prove hard, and I always suspected we could get near publication time only to have to insert something at the last minute to reflect the latest outrage. Little did I suspect, however, what 2020 would ultimately have in store for the nation. As I write these words, it is summer, and the coronavirus pandemic is still ravaging the United States. Approximately 160,000 people have died, and estimates as to what lies ahead are not promising. If they prove prescient, as many as 300,000 will have perished by the time you laid eyes upon this sentence. Experts say that at least 60 percent of the earliest deaths could have been avoided, and then most of those after, had President Trump taken the threat seriously from the beginning. Had he even listened to members of his own administration and the intelligence community that serves him--voices that were trying to tell him in early January of the dangers ahead--hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died would still be alive today. Likewise, had he been as concened with public health as with his own private gain, he might have resisted calling for a quick re- opening of shuttered businesses in the hopes of an economic rebound. But with millions thrown out of work and the economy contracting by one-third in mid-summer--the largest single economic collapse in contemporary national history--Trumps concerns were with spur- ring commerce and evincing optimism that the virus would magically disappear: anything to bolster his sinking poll numbers and his re- election chances. The results, of course, were predictable and have proved tragic. Sending children back to school, encouraging people to gather in restaurants, bars, churches, crowded downtown streets and beaches--lobbying tirelessly for a return to "normal"--the president and his enablers have endangered the lives of millions. This they have done for the sake of political marketing, hoping that even if hun- dreds of thousands more die, his attempts to blame the virus on China (where it originated, although the most virulent strain to hit the U.S. came from Italy) will convince enough voters that none of the suffering was his fault. According to the data, around half of all fatalities have been persons of color, and the mortality rate for black, Latinx and indigenous folks has been about 2.5 times higher than for whites. It is not likely a coincidence that the Trump administration met the present challenge--one in which people of color have done a disproportionate share of the dying--with such nonchalance. Indifference to black and brown suffering, if not outright hostility to black and brown peoples, has been a hallmark of Trumps presidency and most of his life. And if this had not been clear enough from the administrations response to COVID-19, it would be made glaringly obvious from its reaction to the other major event of this year: the uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Once video footage of Floyds murder went viral, showing officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyds neck for nearly nine minutes, while continually sporting a disinterested smirk, it was only a matter of time before the nation exploded. Although we had witnessed this scene before, seeing on film the killings of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and John Crawford III, among others, this time was different. Perhaps it was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back, or perhaps it was the relative quiet and isolation of the COVID lockdown providing people the space to truly see and feel in ways that would have been more difficult had they been going about the normal hustle and bustle of their lives. But whatever it was, within weeks millions of people in the United States, including large num- bers of whites, had poured into the streets in the largest mass uprising for racial justice in the history of this country. In the face of more than 11,000 overwhelmingly peaceful protests, the administration and local authorities have met demonstrators with tear gas, clubs, and rubber bullets. On multiple occasions, the president has threatened to call in the military to suppress lawful assembly and protest, and actually did so in response to demonstrators in the District of Columbia. Hundreds of videos available online show law enforcement attacking nonviolent protesters without prov- ocation. Dozens of people, including police officers, have attempted to run over demonstrators with their vehicles. The hostility of the "law and order" brigades, from the president on down, is apparent, and their embrace of authoritarianism has been laid bare for all to witness. Since June 2020, we have been in the midst of a full-scale rebellion, or what some have called a soft civil war. Not between North and South, or even black and white, but between those who believe in racial equity and pluralism and those who do not. And into that breach, in late August, yet another black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back and killed on camera by an offi- cer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The rebellion that followed involved widespread property destruction by those frustrated with the lack of charges brought against the officer. This uprising was then countered by white vigilante violence, including the murder of two white antiracism activists by 17-year-old Trump supporter and police super-fan, Kyle Rittenhouse. The president, in keeping with his soft-pedaling of right-wing violence, not only refused to condemn Rittenhouse, but has justified his actions as self-defense, and continued to blame the black community and its supporters for the chaos. This volume is divided into seven sections containing essays written from 2008 to the present. The first two chapters track, in chrono- logical order, the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. They seek to show both the continuity of race as the background noise of everything that happens in America, as well as the way that the nation can quickly careen from hope and optimism around race to the depths of cynicism. The third section looks specifically at this unique moment in our history, and the way in which both COVID-19 and the current uprising for black lives have rendered 2020 a year that few others can match for historical significance. Sections four through six contain essays that speak to three broad themes: white denial about the reality of racism in the United States, historical memory and the way our tendency to misremember our past contributes to racial strife, and the propensity of the nations right wing to rely on faulty data to craft their narratives in opposition to racial justice efforts. The final section seeks to provide some direction for antiracism work, activism, and advocacy, both for individuals and for institutions, moving forward. There is one thing, however, that binds these chapters together: They all speak to the core crisis at the heart of this nation. Because however unprecedented this moment may be in our lives, in some ways what it reveals is as old as the country itself. Some lives matter more than others in America. It was true at the founding. It remains true today. It will remain true forever, unless and until we decide we have had enough. A few words about citations and sourcing of fact claims in this volume: Because this is an essay collection, I have opted to forego formal footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical citations within the body of the work itself. To insert such notes would have proved visually distracting in short pieces, and would have increased the size of the book to an unwieldy length. However, because it is important to make citations available, especially for references, data or histori- cal material that is not widely known or understood, City Lights and I will be posting references on their website, www.citylights. com. These notes will be textual, meaning they will be broken down by chapter, and then reference particular page numbers, with a few words of the text cited so as to orient the reader to what is being referenced. These will then be followed by formal citations. I hope this will satisfy the aesthetics best for most readers while also meeting the needs for scholarly legitimacy desired by those seeking truth in these dangerous (and often surreal) times. --Tim Wise, Nashville, August 2020 OUR FEAR IS REAL BUT FAR FROM UNIQUE Empathy in a time of pandemic Is it safe to leave the house? To go to the store? To get in the car and drive, even if only to break the monotony of days or weeks inside? Is it OK to go for a walk around the neighborhood to get some fresh air? Will my job be there next week, next month, in six months? If I get sick, will I be able to get care? And even if I can, will I be a Description for Sales People *This is Tim Wises first book in years, and he will promote it in every way possible. When hes not out giving book talks, Tim invests extensively in keeping in touch with his hundreds of thousands of followers via Twitter, Facebook and Medium.com. Tims audience is excited for a book! *Tim Wises dedicated Twitter following is up to 127.6K followers and he is active on a daily basis. *Race continues to be a defining flashpoint in America. Tim is a much respected anti-racist advocate, who speaks about racial conflict by seeking to dismantle white supremacy, white denial, and white privilege from the inside out. This book encapsulates his thinking, views, and vision through concise, easy to understand essays. *Tim Wise is a regular commentator on MSNBC programs hosted by Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, Lawrence ODonnell, Chris Matthews and on CNN programs hosted by Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo. *Tim was recently interviewed on Chelsea Handlers NETFLIX documentary, "Hello Privilege. Its Me, Chelsea." Details ISBN0872868095 Author Tim Wise Publisher City Lights Books Series City Lights Open Media Language English ISBN-10 0872868095 ISBN-13 9780872868090 Format Paperback Pages 352 Imprint City Lights Books Place of Publication Monroe, OR Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2021-01-14 US Release Date 2021-01-14 Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-01-14 UK Release Date 2021-01-14 DEWEY 305.800973/0905 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-02-07 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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