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My interview, 5/1/14 with Pete Dominick on Sirius XM, discussing race issues for the prior week, including Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy, and other issues...

Tim Wise on Stand Up With Pete Dominick 5/1/14

Tim Wise On Movement Building And The Importance Of Youth

My appearance on KCRW to discuss the aftermath of the Charleston massacre and its meaning for the antiracism struggle. Other guests include journalist Jonathan Capehart, author Joshua Dubois, and Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Black Deaths and White Culture: Fighting Racism After Charleston (KCRW, June 24, 2015)

A discussion of racism and its manifestations in so-called liberal communities, and the way that white progressives oftentimes overlook issues of race and white privilege, and thereby torpedo their own efforts for social justice...

Are Progressive Cities Worse For Racial Justice

In this interview, Tim Wise discusses his latest book, Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America, and the nation's culture of cruelty with regard to those in need...

Connections - KGNU Boulder - Tim Wise on America's Culture of Cruelty

Antiracism activist Tim Wise addresses the proverbial elephant in the room, RACE. During his 4 show series, Tim speaks with members of the media, members of grass roots organizations, and fellow antiracism activists as they discuss how race plays a role within our society, and how we can influence positive change.

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Color-Conscious with Tim Wise

In this brief clip from Tim Wise's recent appearance w/Dolewite on Nashville's 101.1 The Beat, Wise responds to common white deflections about racism, and explores the selective way in which white Americans choose to remember (or forget) certain aspects of our history.

Tim Wise on Racism and the Selectivity of White Memory (101.1 The Beat w/Dolewite)

In this clip from his conversation with Dolewite (101.1 The Beat in Nashville), Tim Wise explores the reasons why so many white Americans seem unwilling to listen to people of color when it comes to their experiences with racism and discrimination.

Tim Wise on the Reasons for White Denial (101.1 The Beat w/Dolewite)

This is Tim Wise's August 2016 discussion with Chauncey DeVega, in which the two discuss the 2016 election, Donald Trump, the politics of white racial resentment, the notion of political "harm reduction," the unfortunate inadequacy of logic in political movement building, and the right's deployment of "Negrophobia" in their discussions of crime and violence...among some other things...

Tim Wise on the Chauncey DeVega Show - August 2016

On this bonus episode, GaoZong and Mai Shoua talk about realizing their race for the first time with national author, speaker, and anti-racism educator, Tim Wise.

This podcast is produced by the Youthprise Podcaster-In-Residence initiative.

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Music by Casey Hjelmberg
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BONUS Real Eyes Realize Race and Its Rage with Tim Wise

This is a portion of a larger speech, delivered at an event for service providers and community members, sponsored by the Milwaukee YWCA in 2008. In this segment, I discuss the difference between models of social service provision that are rooted in notions of "charity for" those in need, versus models rooted in "solidarity with" those in need, and why these differences matter.

Charity vs Solidarity

A snippet of my 2005 speech at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, discussing the ways in which privilege and the obliviousness that comes with it can leave people dangerously unsafe, whether nationally (as in the case of our reaction to 9/11) or locally (as with the reaction to the shootings at Columbine High School and others).

Why Do They Hate Us - Reflections on the Pathology of Privilege (2005)

A brief snippet from my 2005 speech at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in L.A. In this clip, I'm discussing the way in which white liberal and left activists sometimes minimize the issue of race and racism within social justice efforts (around the environment, health care and militarism), and the way in which that fractures potential social justice coalitions.

White Liberal/Left Colorblindness and Social Justice (2005)

A radio-based presentation from 2006, in which I analyze the longstanding tendency for so many white, lower-middle class/working class voters to vote against their apparent economic interests -- by supporting candidates whose economic policies benefit mostly the wealthy -- and attempt to explain why this happens. Specifically, I explore the inadequacies of existing theories to explain this voting behavior (traditional Marxist analysis, as well as modern liberal analyses like those of Thomas Frank), and call for an understanding that places whiteness and white privilege squarely in the middle of the narrative.

What's The Matter With White Folks?

A segment of a longer speech, delivered on September 22, 2011 at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this clip, I discuss the ways in which the U.S. political culture is becoming increasingly indifferent to suffering and injustice, whether in the criminal justice system, with regard to health care, war, bullying or any number of other examples. Begins with a discussion of the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia the night before this talk.

Feeling No Pain - America's Deepening Culture of Indifference

Section from a longer 2008 speech, 10 days after the presidential election, in which I discuss how racism of a 2.0 variety -- which I explain in the clip -- may be in full effect despite the election of Barack Obama to the office of the presidency. I also explore how black folks and people of color generally must meet a much higher threshold of acceptability to white voters than white candidates have had to meet, in terms of education, erudition, style and affect, and how the "archetype of acceptable blackness" may become more constricting then ever with the election of President Obama

Racism 2.0 and the Burden of Blackness in the Age of Obama

Brief snippet from longer September, 2011 speech in Louisville at Spalding University. In this clip I discuss the importance of human empathy and the ways in which USAmerican culture devalues it in the name of patriotism and hyper-nationalism.

Empathy, Nationalism and Our Twisted Measures of Greatness (2011)

From my September 2011 speech at Spalding University in Louisville. In this clip I discuss the way in which the U.S. clearly prioritizes incarceration over education, and analyze the systemic logic -- however twisted -- of inequality, and how it is "rational" from the perspective of those who benefit from the economic status quo...

Schools, Prisons and the Disturbing Logic of Inequality (2011)

Between Barack and A Hard Place Lecture at Colorado College

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A portion of my recent talk at Emerson College, in Boston, MA. This talk was delivered one week to the day after the bombing during the Boston Marathon, which occurred approximately 6 blocks from the school.

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