White Fragility
The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people is at the root of virtually all white defensiveness on this topic.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World
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Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Racial bias is largely unconscious, and herein lies the deepest challenge—the defensiveness that ensues upon any suggestion of racial bias.4 This defensiveness is classic white fragility because it protects our racial bias while simultaneously affirming our identities as open-minded. Yes, it’s uncomfortable to be confronted with an aspect of
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Suggesting that a white person’s viewpoint comes from a racialized frame of reference (challenge to objectivity) • People of color talking directly about their own racial perspectives (challenge to white taboos on talking openly about race) • People of color choosing not to protect white people’s feelings about race (challenge to white racial
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