White Like Me Audiobook (Free)

With a fresh preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection. It is a personal study of how racial privilege styles the daily lives of white Americans in every world: work, education, housing, criminal justice, and somewhere else.

Using stories from his own life, Tim Smart demonstrates the ways that racism not merely burdens people of color, but also benefits, in relative terms, those who find themselves “white like him.” He discusses how racial privilege could harm whites over time and make progressive social change not as likely. He explores the ways that whites can challenge their unjust privileges, and clarifies in obvious and convincing vocabulary why it is in the best curiosity of whites themselves to do so. Using anecdotes instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that’s simultaneously readable yet scholarly, analytical and yet accessible.