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White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege

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White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US 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.
For years, Tim Wise's bestselling books and spellbinding lectures have challenged some of our most basic assumptions about race in America. White Like Me is the first film to bring the full range of his work to the screen -- to show how white privilege continues to shape individual attitudes, electoral politics, and government policy in ways too many white people never stop to think about.



-Assignment Peggy McIntosh, an American feminist and anti-racist activist, wrote the 1988 essay "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies." Click the following link to download the essay: http://www.mediaed.org/Handouts/WhitePrivilegeAndMalePrivilege.pdf (Links to an external site.)Read Peggy McIntosh's entire essay, with special attention to McIntosh's discussion of the 46 effects of white privilege in her daily life. (This discussion begins on p. 5). Develop an explanation of white privilege by connecting the ideas in McIntosh's essay with the ideas in the film. Use examples from both the article and the film to illustrate your explanation.