In Boston October 14- Film and Discussion: “WHITE LIKE ME”

DPP Event

Film and Discussion: “WHITE LIKE ME”

Wednesday, October 14

ADAMS STREET BRANCH LIBRARY

(690 Adams Street), 6 pm

 

It’s the cameras that are new.

It’s not the violence that’s new.

Ta-Nehisi Coates (source)

 

In response to the growing awareness of police violence against African Americans, Dorchester People for Peace invites you to a film and discussion about the unspoken but continuing “white privilege” which underpins race relations in our country. Please join us for an important dialogue with your neighbors. Free and open to all. Refreshments

 

The one-hour documentary film “White Like Me,” based on the work of anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the U.S. 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.

 

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