White fragility - Robin DiAngelo

The International Bestseller

'With clarity and compassion,
DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as
a practice not restricted to
"bad people." In doing so, she moves our
national discussions forward.
This is a necessary book for all people
invested in societal change'
Claudia Rankine

Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These
are the ways in which
ordinary white people react when it is pointed
out to them that they
have done or said something that has -
unintentionally - caused racial
offence or hurt. After, all, a racist
is the worst thing a person can
be, right? But these reactions only
serve to silence people of colour,
who cannot give honest feedback to
'liberal' white people lest they
provoke a dangerous emotional
reaction.

Robin DiAngelo coined
the term 'White Fragility' in
2011 to describe this process and is here
to show us how it serves to
uphold the system of white supremacy. Using
knowledge and insight
gained over decades of running racial awareness
workshops and working
on this idea as a Professor of Whiteness Studies,
she shows us how we
can start having more honest conversations, listen
to each other better
and react to feedback with grace and humility. It
is not enough to
simply hold abstract progressive views and condemn the
obvious racists
on social media - change starts with us all at a
practical, granular
level, and it is time for all white people to take
responsibility for
relinquishing their own racial supremacy.

'By turns mordant
and
then inspirational, an argument that powerful
forces and tragic
histories stack the deck fully against racial justice
alongside one
that
we need only to be clearer, try harder, and do
better' David
Roediger, Los Angeles Review of Books

'The value in White Fragility
lies in its methodical, irrefutable exposure of racism in thought and
action, and its call for humility and vigilance' Katy Waldman, New Yorker

'A vital, necessary, and beautiful book' Michael Eric Dyson