White Fragility: Why It is So Arduous for White Individuals to Discuss About Racism

The New York Occasions best-selling e book exploring the counterproductive reactions white folks have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and the way these reactions preserve racial inequality.

On this “important, mandatory, and delightful e book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “permits us to know racism as a observe not restricted to ‘dangerous folks’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive strikes that white folks make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterised by feelings equivalent to anger, worry, and guilt, and by behaviors together with argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in flip, operate to reinstate white racial equilibrium and stop any significant cross-racial dialogue. On this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, the way it protects racial inequality, and what we will do to have interaction extra constructively.