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

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


 

 A talk by TIM WISE at the College at Brockport

April 16th at 7 p.m. in the New York Room – Cooper Hall

 

* free admission but limited seating!

 

 

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

 

This event was made possible by generous grants from: the American Democracy Project and Promoting Excellence in Diversity at the College at Brockport. Co-sponsored with support from the Departments of: Social Work; Education and Human Development; Sociology; Psychology; Criminal Justice; Anthropology; the Dean of the School of Education and Human Services; CSTEP/McNair; Student Social Work Organization; Rochester Chapter of Social Welfare Action Alliance, The Interfaith Alliance; Moving Beyond Racism; Rochester Human Rights Committee; Metro Justice of Rochester
 

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