Speak Up/Speak Out Community Panel: White Like Me by Tim Wise

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Jun

28

4:00pm

Speak Up/Speak Out Community Panel: White Like Me by Tim Wise

By Columbus Metropolitan Library

Columbus Metropolitan Library is hosting this virtual community program. Live chat with panelists from your computer or mobile device.
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Speak Up/Speak Out: Conversations About Race

Tuesday, June 28 | 12 p.m.

Join us as we continue to discuss race and social justice in our communities and in America. Your library is more than a home for books; it also offers spaces to listen, to reflect and to grow. We’re once again inviting central Ohioans to join us in reading, discussing and reflecting upon the same book.
Our moderators and panelists are community leaders who strive to speak up and speak out to address institutional and systemic inequities that face our communities.

Selection: White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son by Tim Wise

In this revised version of his memoir, White Like Me, Tim Wise explores how racial identity and whiteness influence the lives of white Americans by examining how they have impacted his own life. He examines what it means to be white in a nation created for the benefit of those who are “white like him,” and how privilege seeps into every institutional arrangement, from education to employment to the justice system. Wise makes the case that racial inequity and white privilege are real and persistent threats to personal and collective well-being, but that resistance to white supremacy and racism is possible.

MODERATOR:

Dr. Anthony Wilson Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Columbus Metropolitan Library
PANELISTS: Dr. Heidi Renate Ballard Associate Professor, MPH Department of Sociology, Criminology and Justice Studies Otterbein University Tom Katzenmeyer President & CEO Greater Columbus Arts Council
Neal Semel Owner Diversity Matters LLC
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