Pacific Standard A vital, necessary, and beautiful book, a bracing call to white folk everywhere to see their whiteness for what it is and to seize the opportunity to make things better now.
While especially helpful for those new to the critical analysis of whiteness, this work also offers a useful refresher to anyone committed to the ongoing process of self-assessment and anti-oppression work. Shelf Awareness, Starred Review A valuable guide.
With any luck, most who are will be inspired to search themselves and interrupt their contributions to racism. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review White Fragility is a book everyone should be exposed to. This slim book is impressive in its scope and complexity DiAngelo provides a powerful lens for examining, and practical tools for grappling with, racism today. The New Yorker houghtful, instructive, and comprehensive. Review Quotes The value in White Fragility lies in its methodical, irrefutable exposure of racism in thought and action, and its call for humility and vigilance.
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. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. 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. 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). Book Synopsis 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.
About the Book Explores counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality.
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