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Summary of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - cover

Summary of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Paul Adams

Publisher: BH

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo: Conversation Starters
 
The New York Times best-selling book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism explores the reactions that white people have when their personal assumptions about race are challenged. DiAngelo observes that when their reactions are challenged, they maintain racial inequality.DiAngelo is an anti-racist educator and she deftly illuminates in this book the phenomenon of white fragility. This book allows the readers to understand that racism is a practice that is not restricted to ‘bad people.’ She discusses the defensive moves that white people make when they are racially challenged. White fragility appears in a range of emotions like fear, anger, and guilt. It also appears to include silence and argumentation. These behaviors reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent further meaningful cross-racial dialogue. DiAngelo explores white fragility, how it develops, how it gets triggered, how it protects racial inequality and how we can engage people better.
 
The New Yorker says that White Fragility is an “irrefutable exposure of racism in thought and action and its call for humility and vigilance.”
 
A Brief Look Inside:
 
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
 
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
 
and the characters and its world still live on.
 
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
 
bring us beneath the surface of the page
 
and invite us into the world that lives on.
 
These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:
 
Foster a deeper understanding of the book
 
Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
 
Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
 
Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before
 
Disclaimer: This book you are about to enjoy is an independent companion resource of the original book, enhancing your experience. If you have not yet purchased a copy of the original book, please do before purchasing this unofficial Conversation Starters.
 
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Available since: 09/20/2018.

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