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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The perverse thing about our current racial structure is that it has always fallen on the shoulders of those at the bottom to change it. Yet racism is a white problem. It reveals the anxieties, hypocrisies and double standards of whiteness. It is a problem in the psyche of whiteness that white people must take responsibility to solve. You can only
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DiAngelo also rejects the liberal principles of individualism and “color blindness”—that a person’s race is irrelevant to her worth, as Martin Luther King, Jr., argued. Liberal values are, in The Truth According to Social Justice, racist because they enable white people to hide from the “realities” of their own racism and white supremacy. DiAngelo
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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