White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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- 100+
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 170
About this book
Robin DiAngelo published White Fragility in 2018 and it became one of the most discussed books of its kind, partly because it gave a name to a pattern many readers recognized and partly because it drew sustained criticism from across the political spectrum.
DiAngelo's central argument is that white people in majority-white societies are conditioned to react defensively when race comes up, and that the defensiveness itself is one of the things that keeps racism in place.
The book has supporters who credit it with changing the way they think and critics who argue it flattens the conversation, treats whiteness as monolithic, or centers the wrong concerns.
Readers interested in current debates around race, antiracism, and the politics of discomfort will want to read it themselves rather than rely on summaries from either side. It's short, the language is accessible, and it works as a starting point even for those who eventually disagree with much of it.
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Book facts
- Author
- Robin DiAngelo
- First published
- 2003
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 170
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Activism
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online