Questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i58pG0pKHWY&feature=youtu.be
Watch the film and answer the questions
White Like Me (2013)
Film Worksheet
1. What does it mean to be white?
2. How did Tim Wise's upbringing influence his attitudes toward race?
• What did he learn as a result of attending TSU's preschool program?
• How did his experiences and friendships affect his perceptions later?
• How did his college experiences influence his views?
3. What is the question Wise was asked during an anti-apartheid event that changed his views of what he was doing and set him on the path he has been on ever since? (When did he know he was "busted"?).
4. What is the question (and answer) in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me that troubled Wise?
5. How does your answer to #1 compare to those of the students featured in the film?
5. What are some of the ways that white privilege is entrenched in the history of U.S. government?
6. What did the media coverage of the election of Barack Obama as President suggest had happened to racism in the United States?
• What does Imani Perry argue happened in the minds of some, following the election of Obama?
7. What does Michelle Alexander mean when she says that "we have not ended racial caste in America, we've just redesigned it."
8. Share your other thoughts and reflections on the film.
Fill in the blank:
• Median wealth of white families is ____ x greater than black families
• Median wealth of white families is ____ x greater than Latino families
• College educated African Americans are nearly ___ x as likely as college educated whites to be unemployed.
• College educated Latinos are ____% more likely than college-educated whites to be unemployed.
True or False?
White job applicants who claim to have criminal records are more likely to be called back for interviews than black applicants without criminal records.
African American men, on average, will die 5 years before white men.
There are more African Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system than there were enslaved in the U.S. in 1850.
White people think that racism against whites is worse than racism against people of color.