White Fragility
Subtitle: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Boston, MA, USA
Language: eng
Format: electronic resource
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780807047422
Description: 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.
source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/
Table of contents: title: Why is it so hard to talk to white people about racism? --; title: The process of racial socialization --; title: Understanding racism and white supremacy --; title: Racism post civil-rights --; title: How does race shape the lives of white people? --; title: The good/bad binary --; title: Anti-blackness --; title: Racial triggers for white people --; title: The result: White fragility --; title: White fragility in action --; title: White fragility and the rules of engagement --; title: White women's tears --; title: Where do we go from here?