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: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Racist

Racist.

Nope

More divisive propaganda and useless rhetoric. Don't waste your money

Save time and money.

Just another tired piece of work made to create more division in a world that has too much already.

Not Really a Book

The discourse is intellectually lazy and manipulative. It reads more like an outline for a tedious academic training session than a book. The author operates from an overly broad, unconvincing premise and then stacks up data that is only superficially linked to the premise. Then, the author has the temerity to insist on a haphazard and narrow formula to address the issue. Such basic issues as group dynamics and critical thought are minimized or ignored to suit the author's narrative. It's disappointing that such an important issue as race relations should receive such academic and shallow treatment. I fear that such an desultory approach can only have the opposite affect of what the author purports to intend.

Repetitive.

The author's examples went on and on as if her message wasn't being understood or absorbed. It became tedious reading