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Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media) Paperback - 2010

by Wise, Tim

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Wise explores how "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuateracial inequity in the United States today.

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  • Title Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media)
  • Author Wise, Tim
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR005841493
  • ISBN 9780872865082 / 0872865088
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.53 x 0.59 in (20.37 x 14.05 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Civil rights - History -, United States - Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010006545
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

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  • Choice, 12/01/2010, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/26/2010, Page 0
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About the author

Tim Wise is one of the most prominent antiracist essayists, educators and activists in the United States. For twenty years he has challenged racial inequities as a community organizer, public speaker, workshop facilitator and writer. He has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people, contributed essays or chapters to more than twenty books, and has appeared regularly on radio and television as a guest commentator on race issues. He is regularly interviewed by national media, including CNN, Tavis Smiley and by Tom Joyner. Author of many books, his most recent titles are Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama and Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity, both published in the Open Media Series by City Lights Books.