Shattering Myths: The Truth about Race and Incarceration
Timothy Jacob Wise and Professor Pam Oliver
Speaking at UW Madison
Mills Auditorium
Thursday 5/29/03
7:00 p.m.
Tim Wise and Prof. Pam Oliver will come together to shatter myths about race and incarceration.
Tim Wise has been referred to as "the foremost white anti-racist intellectual in the nation" and has emerged as one of hte country's leding young social critics. Since 1990, Wise has spoken in 46 states, to hundreds of community groups and on over 275 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford and Yale, Vanderbilt and Tulane Schools of Law.
He has trained corportate, government, law enforcement and labor officials on methods of dismantling racism in their institutions and has served as a consultant for plaintiffs attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State. Wise has also trained journalists to eliminate racial bias in reporting as a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. and has provided anti-racism training to teachers in several school districts around the country.
A collection of Wise's essay's Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male is due out in 2003. He is the author of Great White Hoax: Responding to David Duke and the Politics of White Nationalism, and has contributed essays to 10 books, including: White Priveleg: Essential Readings on the Others Side of Racism; When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories; and Should American Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate Over Reparations. He is also featured in the upcoming book: White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty Five Personal Stories, from Duke University Press.
Pamela Oliver, Professor of Sociology at UW Madison, has collected and analyzed data on incarceration in Wisconsin. She teaches in the areas of research methods, social movements, and ethnic/racial movements. In recent years, she has become concerned about racial disparities in imprisonment. She has generated wide-ranging original analyses of public data on arrests and imprisonment, with an emphasis on documenting the variations among geographic areas in the offenses for which different racial groups are arrested and imprisoned. Her research reveals disproportionate minority confinement in Wisconsin of African-American and Latinos.
Tim Wise and Pam Oliver presenting together will provide dynamic exchange educating all of us about racism in our communities creating a burgeoning prison system in Wisconsin.
Sponsored by: The Retention Action Project (RAP), Madison, WI Institutes for Healing Racism, Inc., Robert Howard, African American Employee's Association (MMSD), Study Circles on Race, YWCA of Madison, Task Force on Money, Education and Prisons (MEP)
Hedi Rudd
Mayor's Office
Study Circles on Race Program Coordinator
210 Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd Room 403
Madison, WI 53703-3346
608-266-4611 Phone
608-267-8671 Fax
"You keep plugging away--that's the way social change
takes place. That's the way every social change in history
has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard
of, doing work."
Noam Chomsky
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