Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male by Tim Wise

Introduction-Why Treason?     1
Challenging White Denial (in Four Parts)     9
Minimization     15
Uh-Obama: Racism, White Voters, and the Myth of Color-Blindness     15
What Kind of Card is Race? The Absurdity (and Consistency) of White Denial     24
(Proto)Typical White Denial: Reflections on Racism and Uncomfortable Realities     37
The Oprah Effect: Black Success, White Denial, and the Reality of Racism     45
Majoring in Minstrelsy: White Students, Blackface, and the Failure of Mainstream Multiculturalism     63
Racism, White Liberals, and the Limits of Tolerance     72
More of a Thud, Really: Racism, Crash, and the Perpetuation of White Denial     80
Rationalization     93
Rationalizing the Irrational: Racism and the Fallacy of Personal Experience     93
Working for the Man Every Night and Day: Black Conservatives and the Politics of Self-Abuse     107
A God with Whom I Am Not Familiar     117
They Shoot Black Men, Don't They? Sean Bell and the Internal (and Eternal) "Logic" of Racism     122
The Tyranny of Common Sense: Examining the Faulty Logic of "Terrorist" Profiling     128
No, Not Everyone Felt That Way: Reflections on Racism and History     133
Deflection     140
Passing the Buckand Missing the Point: Don Imus, White Denial, and Racism in America     140
Situational Ethics, Conservative Style     151
Personal Responsibility Is a Two-Way Street: Bill Cosby and the Pathology of Passing the Buck     155
Selling the Police: Reflections on Heroism and Hype     159
Racism, Free Speech, and the College Campus     165
Of Immigrants and "Real" Amurkans: Reflections on the Rage of the Ridiculous     175
Competing Victimization     183
On White Pride and Other Delusions     183
A Particularly Cheap White Whine: Racism, Scholarships, and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood     195
Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Indignation: Reflections on the Manufacturing of "Reverse" Racism     203
When Blacks Attack! Reflections on White Victimology and the Ironies of Institutional Racism     209
On the Making of Undeserving Martyrs: Fact and Fiction in the Duke Lacrosse Case     216
Of Bigots and Broken Records: Reflections on the Psychopathology of Racist Thinking     224
Confronting White Privilege     235
The Real Face of Racial Preference     239
Whites Swim in Racial Preference     239
Default Position: Reflections on the Brain-Rotting Properties of Privilege     244
The Power of Perspectivism      251
Of National Lies and Racial Amnesia: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Audacity of Truth     251
Breaking the Cycle of White Dependence: A Modest Call for Majority Self-Help     264
Anywhere but Here: Examining the Crimes of Thee, but Not of Me     269
Some Folks Never Felt Safe: The Truth about National Unity     273
Don't Know Much about (Black) History: School Curricula and the Myth of a Common Narrative     278
Reagan, Race, and Remembrance: Reflections on the American Divide     283
Rebels without a Clue: Racism, Neo-Confederacy, and the Raising of Historical Illiterates     289
Bill of Whites: Historical Memory through the Racial Looking Glass     298
Preferring Our Violence Wholesale: Riots and Destruction in Black and White     302
Home Runs, Heroes, and Hypocrisy: Performance Enhancement in Black and White     307
Measuring the Costs     318
Overclass Blues: Class, Race, and the Ironies of Privilege     318
Collateral Damage: Poor Whites and the Unintended Consequences of Racial Privilege     325
School Shootings and White Denial     331
We Are All Collateral Damage Now: Reflections on War as Emotional Botox     335
Rethinking Superiority: Reflections on Whiteness and the Cult of "Progress"     343
Conclusion-Being In (But Not Of) This Skin     353