Response: Video: White Like Me (50 min)
This week's documentary is White Like Me - based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise. It explores race a. racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today.
Responses should be no less than 300 and no more than 400 words and reflect your engagement both with the video, our class discussion and our readings. Gail Dines and Jean M. Hume. (2015) Gender, Race, and Class in Media. Thousand Oaics, CA: Sage. 4th Edition.