White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

by Robin DiAngelo

Book Overview

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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807047414
• ISBN13: 9780807047415
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

It is an eye opener

I like the book and what she had to say. it helped me on my journey to continue to better myself as a person. She made some valuable points I think it can help others as it has me. Everybody is different and their journey is different to becoming antiracist and becoming a better person. She covers a lot of different subjects concerning racism and what we can do to overcome it as a person.