[act-ma] Fwd: Tim Wise Speaks in Boston - April 20th

[Myrna Morales]

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> Subject: Tim Wise Speaks in Boston -  April 20th
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> They Want Their Country Back:
> Racism and the Politics of White Resentment
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> with TIM WISE
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> APRIL 20, 2011 - 6:00 PM
> FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON
> 66 Marlborough Street
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> This presentation will explore the rising tide of white anxiety  
> since the election of President Obama, and explore the roots of  
> white racial resentment, currently being stoked by the Tea Party,  
> among others. In this speech, Wise discusses the use of nostalgia  
> and historical revisionism as key elements of the right-wing white  
> political narrative, and the importance of pushing back against it:  
> something which, sadly, most liberals have been reluctant to do.  
> Importantly, Wise examines the reasons why the "post-racial  
> liberalism," which downplays racial division and tends to skirt the  
> issue of the right's use of racial imagery, is doomed to fail. Only  
> by confronting racism directly, as individuals and in the larger  
> society, can we hope to defeat the politics of white resentment.
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