AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST
TIM WISE TO SPEAK AT CONVOCATION posted
1/17/07
ADRIAN, Mich. – Author Tim Wise
is scheduled to speak on Jan. 24 at 12:15 p.m. in Dawson
Auditorium as part of the Dr. James Borland Convocation
speaker series.
Tim Wise is among the most prominent
anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and has
been called "...[o]ne of the most brilliant, articulate
and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation.”
Wise has spoken in 48 states, and on over 400 college
campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the law schools
at Yale and Columbia.
Wise has provided anti-racism training
to teachers nationwide, and has conducted trainings
with physicians and medical industry professionals on
how to combat racial inequities in health care. He has
also trained corporate, government, military and law
enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism
in their institutions, and has served as a consultant
for plaintiff's attorneys in federal discrimination
cases in New York and Washington State.
Wise received the 2001 British Diversity
Award for best feature essay on race issues, and is
a featured columnist with the ZNet Commentary program,
a web service that disseminates essays by prominent
progressive educators. His writings are taught at hundreds
of colleges and have appeared in dozens of popular,
professional and scholarly journals. Wise serves as
Race and Ethnicity Editor for “LIP” magazine,
and he has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio
and television programs worldwide.
Convocation is free and open
to the public. It will be held in Dawson Auditorium,
which is off of Charles Street.
Please
Note: The Adrian College Bookstore has
Tim Wise's book "White Like Me" in
stock.
White Like Me, Author Tim
Wise $13.95
From his experiences as a white anti-racist activist
and white American, Tim Wise has crafted the first history
of what it means to be part of the "majority"
in America. Combining the emotion of personal stories
with insights gleaned from fifteen years as an educator,
White Like Me examines the ways in which white
reap the benefits of "racial preferences"
- whether or not they actively engage in racism. By
critically assessing the magnitude of racial privilege
and its costs - to people of color and whites as well
- Wise provides an elegant and provocative memoir relevant
to activists, educators, and average everyday folks
seeding to under stand why race continues to shape life
in the United States.
Other books available
in the bookstore are:
March 6th Speaker for Education at Work
Time Management From Inside Out,
Author Julie Morgenstern $15.00
Julie Morgenstern takes her
groundbreaking from-the-inside-out approach to them
management to a whole new level. Enhancing her proven
three-step program-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-are
invaluable new tools, tips, and exercises that will
help you create a balanced life, one where you're
in control and satisfied with what you've accomplished
at the end of every day. Even those struggling to
keep their heads above water can take control of their
time by following Morgenstern's all-new quick-start
program-a lifeline that offers the breathing room
needed to approach the three-step program calmly and
with confidence.
Whether you're a working parent juggling the demands
of a high-pressure job and raising kids, a busy entrepreneur
who hopes to one day make time for a social life,
or an artist who longs to find time for the work you
love (not just the work that), Julie Morgenstern will
show you how to make time for what's really important-to
you.
March 14th Convocation Speaker
Warped Passages, Author Lisa
Randall $15.95
The universe has many secrets.
It may hide additional dimensions of space other then
the familiar three we recognize. There might even
be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and
unattainable...for now.
Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable
and altogether exhilarating journey that tracks the
arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physic
to the razor's edge of modern scientific theory. One
of the world's leading theoretical physicists, Lisa
Randall provides astonishing scientific possibilities
that, until recently, were restricted to the realm
of science fiction. Unraveling the twisted threads
of the most current debates on relativity, quantum
mechanics, and gravity, she explores some of the most
fundamental questions posed by Nature-taking us into
the warped, hidden dimensions underpinning the universe
we live in, demystifying the science of the myriad
worlds that may exist just beyond our own.
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