Dumb Sh*t White People Say: Essential Responses to Everyday Racism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781982098919)

Dr. Louis Woods is the Africana Studies Program Director and an Associate Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. He holds a Masters (2001) and Ph.D. in history (2006) from Howard University, where he was awarded a three-year Doctoral Scholars Fellowship. Woods earned his Bachelor of Arts of Africana Studies (1999), where he won Phi Beta Kappa and National Honors Society awards from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Inspired by a vast array of past African American heroic figures, his career as a historian has been shaped by both an appreciative gratitude to the ancestors and a commitment to carry on that tradition of struggle for future generations. As a scholar, Woods' research interests have examined the intersection of discriminatory historic federal housing policy, health inequity and the generational racial wealth gap this legislative legacy has exacted upon African American communities nationwide. Analyzing inequitable lending and redlining practices, exclusionary federal mortgage insurance and the prejudiced actions perpetuated by real estate professionals and ordinary citizens have resulted in generations of lost home equity in the black community. His research as been featured in the following journals: The Journal of Urban History, The Journal of African American History and Health Promotion Practice. Woods understands the tremendous intellectual debt he owes the following trailblazing scholars: W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, John Hope Franklin, John Henrik Clarke, Rayford Logan, Charles Wesley, Arturo Schomburg, Chancellor Williams, Yosef Ben-Jochanna, James Baldwin, Walter Rodney, Richard Wright, Zora Neal Hurston, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ivan Van Sertima, Benjamin Quarles, John G. Jackson, Na'im Akbar, Lorenzo Greene, Mary Frances Berry, Deborah Gray White, Angela Davis, and Francis Cress Welsing. These luminaries motivated Woods to pursue academia while remaining committed to empowering the African American community.