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

This week, Misty and Lisa are delighted to bring to you the New York Times Bestseller White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo.

Robin DiAngelo has her PhD in Multicultural Education, and is currently Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. She researches Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis (which is evident in this book!), and has been published many times. She’s a consultant, educator and facilitator on issues of racial and social justice, and has been doing so for over two decades. In 2011, she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which influenced the international dialogue on race.

Misty and Lisa cover major topics from the following chapters in this White Fragility book review:

• Introduction: We Can’t Get There from Here
• The Challenges of Talking to White People About Racism
• Racism and White Supremacy
• Racism After the Civil Rights Movement
• How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People?
• The Good/Bad Binary
• Anti-Blackness
• Racial Triggers for White People
• The Result: White Fragility
• White Fragility in Action
• White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement
• White Women’s Tears
• Where Do We Go from Here?

If you’d like to learn more about the author, you can visit her website here.

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