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Jul 19, 2021 · At this point, it’s difficult not to have heard about Robin DiAngelo, the sociologist and consultant who specializes in anti-racism training. Her book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk To White People About Racism has been a bestseller.
- Nathan J. Robinson
In June 2021, DiAngelo published Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm, a continuation of White Fragility. [40] She appears in the 2024 Daily Wire documentary Am I Racist?, in which she is shown paying $30 in reparations to the documentary's Black producer. DiAngelo charged $15,000 for her appearance. [41] [42]
For well-intentioned white people doing anti-racist and social justice work, the first meaningful step is to recognize their fragility around racial issues—and build their emotional stamina. 'White Fragility' author Robin DiAngelo breaks it down.
- Insider Status
- Homogeneity Over Difference
- Capitalism and Labour
- A U.S.-Centred Understanding of Race
- Racialist Classifications
DiAngelo centres on what she identifies as the racism of the well-educated liberal elite, whom she perceives as enacting racism while maintaining a progressive, anti-racist stance. She then positions herself as an insider in this cultural milieu, using this vantage point somehow to both challenge racism and, along the way, build a career. White fra...
First, DiAngelo takes whiteness to be homogeneous. Phrases like “white collective,” “white dynamic,” “white voice,” “white frame of reference,” “white worldview” and “white experience” are all used to suggest a certain racial sameness. Seeing racialization as containing different identities while denying the fact that diversity also exists within w...
Second, DiAngelo takes as racial markers factors that would be more fruitfully treated as aspects of systems that distribute advantages and disadvantages. She writes: “Whites produce and reinforce the dominant narratives of society, such as individualism and meritocracy.” But there is no race that could possibly have individualism ingrained in its ...
Regardless of whether one grows up in Germany, the U.S. or Albania, DiAngelo argues, any person is socialized in a racialized context. New immigrants, she states, although they might not feel white and have stronger ethnic attachments, will have a “white experience externally” as long as they pass as white. It is an astonishing display of arrogance...
In arguing that white supremacy describes a socio-political system of domination based on racial categories, DiAngelo sees no issue with relying on this very same system of racial classification to draw her arguments. Yet such racialist thinking is keeping white supremacy intact. What makes one white, for example? It is the biological “trace,” as t...
- Raluca Bejan
A summary of Chapter 4 in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of White Fragility and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
May 6, 2021 · The week before your Privilege, Domination, and Oppression final, you’re assigned two articles: one about how Jews “became white” and another about an Orthodox woman who wanted a divorce, but her abusive husband refused to provide the get (a Jewish divorce).
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Apr 17, 2022 · The biggest issue with Robin DiAngelo’s New York Times bestseller White Fragility is that it throws the rules of good scholarship out the window. That’s a bold claim, but multiple quotes from DiAngelo’s book readily back this up.
