Tim Wise
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Wise |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wise |
| SIGNATURE | WISE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Until Our Lungs Give Out
A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences Title From Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book." Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace. This interwoven collection of searingly honest interviews with lead…
The Racial Healing Handbook
How the yodel became a joke
Although yodelling has been a part of English-language popular music since the early decades of the 19th century, it lacks prestige in contemporary popular music. This essay charts the change in the yodel's fortunes from its use in the early 19th century as a signifier for ideas relating to a pastoral Golden Age to its present-day association with hillbillies and comic stereotypes. It examines the contexts in which yodelling was most frequently h…
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, explores how Barack Obama's emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama's rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as a validation of the American ideology that anyone can make it if they work hard, but also as an example of how…
School Shootings and White Denial
Is Sisterhood Conditional? White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action
Despite the significant benefits to white women from affirmative action programs in education, employment, and contracting; and despite the likelihood that gender discrimination, like its racial counterpart, would intensify in the absence of these programs, white women have been noticeably absent from the front lines of affirmative action's defenseeven in the face of open assaults on such policies, like Proposition 209 in California. This paper w…
Is Sisterhood Conditional? White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action
Despite the significant benefits to white women from affirmative action programs in education, employment, and contracting; and despite the likelihood that gender discrimination, like its racial counterpart, would intensify in the absence of these programs, white women have been noticeably absent from the front lines of affirmative action's defenseeven in the face of open assaults on such policies, like Proposition 209 in California. This paper w…
School Shootings and White Denial
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, explores how Barack Obama's emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama's rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as a validation of the American ideology that anyone can make it if they work hard, but also as an example of how…
How the yodel became a joke
Although yodelling has been a part of English-language popular music since the early decades of the 19th century, it lacks prestige in contemporary popular music. This essay charts the change in the yodel's fortunes from its use in the early 19th century as a signifier for ideas relating to a pastoral Golden Age to its present-day association with hillbillies and comic stereotypes. It examines the contexts in which yodelling was most frequently h…
The Racial Healing Handbook
Until Our Lungs Give Out
A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences Title From Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book." Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace. This interwoven collection of searingly honest interviews with lead…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Racism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Denial (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Racism (2 works)