White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

· Beacon Press
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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

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2.3
144 reviews
Jeff B
August 12, 2020
when the author stated this in her, Authors notes, section of the book. I knew something was wrong with this books credibility. along with the credibility of this clearly racist woman. "women were denied the right to vote until 1920, and black women were denied access to that right until 1965." this is completely false and misleading. black women along with white women were voting and holding public offices as early as the 1920. dosen't take much google work to figure this out. so if the author misleads you from the start maybe we should assume the rest of the book is misleading and inaccurate. I'm thinking about doing a sentence by sentence break down of the facts in this book. though most is all pseudo science and anecdotal evidence from the authors racist view point.
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Sam Houston
February 3, 2023
Well...it's a book. The premise is just blm-antifa garbage. Every race, creed, group of people on this planet are guilty of what is written in these pages. It is human nature since the dawn of our species. How about we talk about those 5 racist Police Officers that swarmed and killed that young, defenseless Black man. Yes, Black Folk can be racist against themselves; case in point, Chicago.
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Casey
February 4, 2021
It's haliarius the people who read and believe this are the same ones accusing others of being racist and brainwashed. They're obviously the ones who need their eyes opened to the real world, not the fake world where a racist white person is hiding behind every corner that Twitter has them believing they're living in. If you agree with this book, you're racist.
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About the author

Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author and has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice for more than twenty years. She formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University.

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