Note: Digital/Printed Read

URL: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/wacquant/wacquant_pdf/3wacquant.pdf

Note: 1) Digital Read 2) Sorry there’s so many parts to download. It took me FOREVER to scan in this book. It’s an amazing read though! A MUST READ if you will.

URL:

Pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?2ref96xn45tex1h

pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?w4ftdoa69zjk7ww

Pt 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?gguvgexm7vocc4w

Pt 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?fglf1ilu91pzgfi

Pt 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?fc0ea6y1nh6rf2v

Pt 6: http://www.mediafire.com/?mt8kn25e119kcwq

Pt 7: http://www.mediafire.com/?plz15bytkw5f0il

Description:

In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me, activist and educator Tim Wise examines the ways in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States.

The essays include in this collection span the last ten years of Wise’s writing and cover all the hottest racial topics of the past decade, including the political rise of Barack Obama, the challenge to affirmative action, the implications of Hurricane Katrina, and immigration. Wise’s commentaries make forceful yet accessible arguments that serve to counter both white denial and complacency- two of the main obstacles to creating a more racially equitable and just society. Considered on of the leading writers on racism, Tim Wise once again challenges his readers to as, “Where is the outrage?”

by Rochester SDS, AARM, and Rochester Indie Media

Note: Digital Read.

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?mmt4jwkqzww

Opening:

Premise:

Those in power rule by force, and the sooner we break ourselves of illusions to the contrary, the sooner we can at least begin to make reasonable decisions about whether, when, and who we are going to resist.

Warning and Introduction to the Reader:

Warning: The following collection of writings is not intended to be a complete or anywhere-near-complete analysis of institutionalized white supremacist racism in the United States.

I was going to write a generic greeting to the reader here, but have decided against it. Such greetings that give praise to readers for their attention can come across as belittling- even more so when the subject matter is serious. And this shit is serious. If we want to survive it- if we truly want to liberate ourselves from the racist piece of shit society we inhabit and effectively turn it on its head- then educating ourselves from the racist piece of shit society we inhabit and effectively turn it on its head- then educating ourselves and those we love is only the first of many steps we must take. What follows-that is, our willingness or unwillingness to put thought into action- is all that matters. 

This brings up the issue of commitment. Because I can’t possibly know who reads this, I’m going to try to avoid confronting readers on privileges they may or may not have. But we must face the fact that a privileged class exists in this country, and if you are of that class (as I am, and you know whether or not you are as well), one of the most convenient privileges you have is the ability to choose your level of commitment to this anti-racist struggle. In speaking with many for whom this commitment is not a choice, I’ve come to understand a tendency among privileged people to half- commit - to turn their racism radar on and off at will - and how damaging that is to this movement and to the reputations of their anti-racist allies. So, in the words of one member of the local organization, Activists Against Racism Movement (AARM), if you’re not 100% committed, then get out of the way or be trampled, cus we’re making moves.

With that, I present to you the first volume of Making Moves.

Note: Good Print Read.

URL: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/pdccWM

Opening:

Less Guilt, More Solidarity

Somewhere in the early chapters of Dan Berger’s excellent book Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity, the thought occurred to me: “Fuckin’ Finally!” It took a lot of time, alot of middling books on the white New Left, but someone had finally got the essence of what was right and what was wrong with the New Left on race.

Contrary to popular belief, it was that the “excesses” of the Weather (and contemporaries in the SLA) were a matter of going “too far” in their opposition to white supremacy. Nor is it true that the Weather weren’t guilty of excesses (including guilt trips, idealization of black liberation figures, the idea that the waning hippie movement constituted a revolutionary vanguard, ect.) Instead, and this is what makes Outlaws a unique addition to New Left history, we should have a better framework: That, paradoxally, excesses and extremism are a retreat, rather that advance, in radicalism.

“white Guilt” is one of these terms that has a lot of baggage. Everyone fro the fully fascist to the merely conservative uses it, “liberals” are constantly chided with it, and  white people who don’t want to struggle around issues of race and racism use it as a trump car. When people use the term, it’s generally just a pejorative way of saying, “get over it” (“it” being racism).

ect..