Rethinking Superiority: Reflections on Whiteness and the Cult of “Progress”
As of this coming year, high school students in Philadelphia, PA will be required to take a course in African American history in order to graduate. In a recent column, I lent my support to the new...
View ArticleResponding to a Young Reactionary: White Privilege, Judaism and the Making of...
After a quarter-century of antiracism work, either as an activist or educator, there are a few things I’ve learned about the reactionaries and right-wingers at whom my work has long been aimed. First,...
View ArticleBrief Thoughts on Superiority and Self-Doubt (White Racial Edition)
Just received a fascinating e-mail. Literal word-for-word, as follows: “I’m very proud of being a white male, and I don’t care what you say! White people are the BEST!” I have long wondered, amid such...
View ArticleTim Wise on RT America News, 6/22/15 – The Charleston Massacre and...
My appearance on RT America News, June 22, 2015 to discuss the Charleston Massacre and the connection between terrorist Dylann Roof and the larger white nationalist and neo-Confederate movement — and...
View ArticleTim Wise Interview with Chauncey DeVega: Trump, White Fragility and Race in...
Here’s my latest interview with cultural critic and writer Chauncey DeVega, from a week or so ago , posted to DeVega’s website on February 4. We discuss Trump(ism), the occupation of the Oregon...
View ArticleTwitterStorm on David Duke
Here is the Twitter storm I released on David Duke yesterday, after he announced he was running for the U.S. Senate again, in Louisiana. As most of you know, I got my start doing antiracism work in the...
View ArticleStill a Nazi After All These Years: The Return of David Duke (with Audio)
For so many reasons, I really didn’t want to have to write this. But here we go again. Twenty-six years after his first run for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana, lifelong white supremacist, Neo-Nazi and...
View ArticleTim Wise on the Rock Newman Show, 9/28/16: Police Violence, White Denial,...
My appearance on the Rock Newman Show to discuss Donald Trump and the politics of prejudice, police accountability and violence, and movement building before and after the November 8 election.
View ArticleAlt+Right+Delete: The Disingenuous and Contradictory Rhetoric of White...
So now we know: White nationalists have been working more on their wardrobe than tightening up the rhetoric and logic with which they defend and present their worldview. Case in point, Richard Spencer,...
View ArticleIf It’s a Civil War, Pick a Side: Donald Trump, White Nationalism and the...
Sometimes America feels like the movie Groundhog Day: a place where we keep waking up again and again to the same shit, hoping against hope that this time — no really, this time — things will be...
View ArticleTim Wise and Carol Anderson on the Tavis Smiley Show, 9/19/17: White Rage in...
My recent appearance alongside Carol Anderson (Emory University) on the Tavis Smiley Show, September 19, 2017
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