"One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation."
Wise, best known for his work on white priviledge, spoke to a packed EJ Thomas Stage Door about white privilege, the election of President Barak Obama, and the challenges we face as a nation continuing to struggle with racial conflict. Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and 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 is the 2008 Oliver L. Brown Distinguished Visiting Scholar for Diversity Issues at Washburn University, in Topeka, Kansas. Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama, and may other works.
Our Third Annual Rethinking Race: Black, White and Beyond continues to build on our tradition of engaged scholarship, bringing faculty and students, community leaders and international experts together to apply scholarly insights to addressing the conflicts we face today. This type of co-curricular work integrates keynote speakers, face2face conversations, films and panel discussions into meaningful course assignments, where students learn to think and write more persuasively about controversial and challenging conflicts we will expect them to help us resolve upon graduation.