[Peace] another AWARE film... 2pm, Sunday, November 15, Champaign Public Library, room C (main floor, near the coffee shop)

[C. G. Estabrook]

Wise's position is identity politics verging on the demagogic.

It well illustrates the difference between liberals (like him) and the left.  Where the left wants to talk about class and equality, liberals substitute race and diversity.  And (esp. if they are white) get quite heated about it.

I'd  suggest as a bit of intellectual self-defense for this film a reading of Walter Benn Michaels, "The Trouble with Diversity."  Or Slavoj Zizek on the Pomo triad, race, gender, & class.  --CGE   

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:29:07 -0600
>From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>  
>Subject: [Peace] another AWARE film... 2pm, Sunday, November 15, Champaign Public Library, room C (main floor, near the coffee shop)  
>To: peace at lists.chambana.net
>
>AWARE Films invites you to a screening of "On White Privilege" at the
>Champaign Public Library at 2p on Sunday, November 15th. (See below
>for more about the film and author/speaker Tim Wise.)
>
>We've chosen this 60-minute film because -- while always topical,
>unfortunately -- this subject seems especially appropriate in light of
>tragic events that have occurred in our area over the past several
>months.
>
>Eye-opening for whites. Reinforcing for persons of color. After-film
>discussion and refreshments included. FREE and open to the public.
>
> -Jenifer
>
>"On White Privilege"
>
>For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying
>audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take
>on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture he
>offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America.
>
>Overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise
>provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the
>damage it does -- not only to people of color, but to white people as
>well. This is an ideal introduction to the social construction of
>racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often
>invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege.
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