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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
I really loved this book honestly. It was not perfect but I think it opened many good conversations on race that many white people are scared or unwilling to open. Most of the author's book was kept within a white-black narrative but I assumed that was due to his personal experiences. (You can, after all, write best on what you know.) It's not some Bible of Race - designed to be the answer for what white people should do in every situation. Rather, I took this book as a "Here's what I've learned and try to do to help but I'm still learning" type of thing. I recommend this book, as a fellow caucasian, for other white people to read to open the door mentally for race-based conversations in general.
It was good for me to hear this perspective, from someone from a similar background and similar thought process (but someone who has also experienced and thought about so much more than I have). I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who hasn't already spent a while thinking about their own white privilege, though, as he does take some opinions for granted in the reader. The word "reflections" in the title is important to note: this isn't a research book, or one full of statistics or social analysis. It's about Tim Wise and his own experience as a white anti-racist.
DNF at 50% so no rating, but honestly...1 star. How is this book recommended so often? Extremely anecdotal. I guess if you’re someone (preferably a white middle class man) that has never thought about privilege and racial discrimination it could be helpful? Maybe?. I didn’t gain any new information or insight from reading about this dudes family history and HIS experience. And to think it was recommended alongside Carol Anderson’s books. Not even close.
Eye-opening, inspiring, funny, poignant mix of memoir, history, and sociology. Great read for white people looking to do anti-racist work.
A very important book for anyone who cares about racism, privilege, and examining their own place in society. This is not a book that is going to make you feel bad about who you are or how you were born, but about what you can do with those things to make a difference.
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http://unsweet-tea-no-lemon.blogspot.com/2014/09/white-like-me.html
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
read this for school so i am simply too lazy to write an actual review for it sry
I really liked this book.
This was an ordinary white man’s biography told through the lens of his white privilege and the white supremacist society that he benefits from. Some times it’s hard for us white folks to recognize how, at every stage, how our skin color benefits us.
He speaks of unreported stories from 9/11, Katrina, and LA Riots that would have shifted the narrative away from the attacks in minorities.
This book is also very Nashville. He grew up there and if you’re from the area you’ll know everywhere he mentions. It’s really cool.
One of my favorite things about this book was a part on traditions and which traditions we choose to keep and honor. It’s something I’ve been working on with regards to dealing with my southern roots.
My only compliant is that he made a stylistic choice to use the n word with the hard ‘r’. It wasn’t for me.
This was an ordinary white man’s biography told through the lens of his white privilege and the white supremacist society that he benefits from. Some times it’s hard for us white folks to recognize how, at every stage, how our skin color benefits us.
He speaks of unreported stories from 9/11, Katrina, and LA Riots that would have shifted the narrative away from the attacks in minorities.
This book is also very Nashville. He grew up there and if you’re from the area you’ll know everywhere he mentions. It’s really cool.
One of my favorite things about this book was a part on traditions and which traditions we choose to keep and honor. It’s something I’ve been working on with regards to dealing with my southern roots.
My only compliant is that he made a stylistic choice to use the n word with the hard ‘r’. It wasn’t for me.
I read this in 2018 because my sister was required to read this in one of her sociology classes to get her social work degree. She gave it to me to read after she was done and, although I think this book is important to read, I think many better alternatives have since been released. I think the privileged, upper echelon are just as influential in maintaining structural racism, and examining perspectives that are extremely different from mine has helped me better understand the many hurdles we still have.