Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today.What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks truth ... to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch, but to recognize their own role in co-creating ... a fair, inclusive, truly democratic society.--Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowTim Wises new book gives us the tools we need to reach people whose understanding of our country is white instead of right. And without pissing them off --James W. Loewen, author, Lies My Teacher Told MeTim Wises latest is more urgent than ever. Unflinchingly, and page after page, Wise calls out a brutal truth, one unwelcome to so many white people: The racial trauma playing out across this nation, hour after hour, day after day, is inflicted--be it actively or unwittingly--by them.--Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its LegacyA white social justice advocate clearly shows how racism is Americas core crisis. Wise comments on a host of events that bear witness to pervasive racism, including reactions to Barack Obamas election, Henry Louis Gates arrest after being mistaken as a burglar, the rise of the militant tea party, the killing of Black men by police, and the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. The biases that ended George Floyds life were explicit, Wise writes. Even more, they were part of an institutional and systemic process, whereby unequal treatment of black and brown bodies and communities is normative. A trenchant assessment of our nations ills.--*Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Dispatches from the Race War] is a bracing call to action in a moment of social unrest.--Publishers WeeklyIn this collection of essays, renowned social-justice advocate Tim Wise confronts racism in contemporary America. Seen through the lens of major flashpoints during the Obama and Trump years, Dispatches from the Race War faces the consequences of white supremacy in all its forms. This includes a discussion of the bigoted undertones of the Tea Partys backlash, the killing of Trayvon Martin, current day anti-immigrant hysteria, the rise of openly avowed white nationalism, the violent policing of African Americans, and more. Wise devotes a substantial portion of the book to explore the racial ramifications of COVID-19, and the widespread protests which followed the police murder of George Floyd. Concise, accessible chapters, most written in first-person, offer an excellent source for those engaged in the anti-racism struggle. Tim Wises proactive approach asks white allies to contend with--and take responsibility for--their own role in perpetuating racism against Blacks and people of color. Dispatches from the Race War reminds us that the story of our country is the history of racial conflict, and that our future may depend on how--or if--we can resolve it. To accept racism is quintessentially American, writes Wise, to rebel against it is human. Be human.Tim Wises new book gives us the tools we need to reach people whose understanding of our country is white instead of right. And without pissing them off --James W. Loewen, author, Lies My Teacher Told MeAbout author(s):Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown, is among the nations most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences throughout North America, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of conferences, and to community groups across the nation about methods for dismantling racism.Wises antiracism work traces back to his days as a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa. After graduation, he threw himself into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From there, he became a community organizer in New Orleans public housing, and a policy analyst for a childrens advocacy group focused on combatting poverty and economic inequity. He has serv