Author Timothy Wise- Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age Obama

Tim Wise, prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown University. Wise has spoken in 48 states, and on over 400 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the Law Schools at Yale and Columbia, and has spoken to community groups around the nation. Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White, and Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama. Wise served as an adjunct faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he co-taught a Master's level class on Racism in the U.S. In 2001, Wise trained journalists to eliminate racial bias in reporting, as a visiting faculty-in-residence at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, in Nashville, and in the early '90s was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized for the purpose of defeating neo-Nazi political candidate, David Duke. Wise has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and television programs, worldwide, including CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW, ABC’c 20/20, MSNBC Live, Donahue, and ESPN’s “Quite Frankly, With Stephen A. Smith,” where he was a regular commentator on racial issues in the world of sports. He is one of several white anti-racists featured in the documentary, “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible,” by filmmaker, Shakti Butler. Tim Wise discusses Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama. http://www.redroom.com/author/tim-wise/bio