Anti-racist writer speaks at PCC Oct. 15
Multicultural Services would like to encourage staff and faculty to hear Tim Jacob Wise share his thoughts on racism at Portland Community College’s Sylvania campus at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the country and has spoken in 48 states on more than 400 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the law schools at Yale and Columbia.
Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. A collection of his essays, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male, will be published in the fall of 2008, and his fourth book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama, will be released in spring 2009.
Wednesday’s session is entitled “Beyond Diversity: Challenging Racism in an Age of Backlash.” It will take place in the Performing Arts Center at PCC, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave. He also will speak at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, on “White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality,” in the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, on the Cascade campus, 705 N. Killingsworth St.
A final meeting, discussing “Profiles in Distortion: Misusing Data to Justify Racism and Privilege,” is set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at The Forum, Building 3, Rock Creek Campus, 17705 N.W. Springville Road.
For more information, visit timwise.org and pcc.edu. E-mail Shelley Yonemura (Mulitcultural Services) if you have questions.