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

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DiAngelo, Robin. Boston: Beacon Press , 2018.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 DIA 2018
Availability
3 copies, 2 available
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? (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that whit…
Author
DiAngelo, Robin
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Beacon Press
Publication Date
2018
Physical Description
168pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Abstract
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? (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
ISBN
9780-8223-52365
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 DIA 2018

Copies

Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Study and Learning Commons REF On Loan, due Monday, February 19, 2024
Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Study and Learning Commons REF Available
Copy 3 BC Children's and Women's Study and Learning Commons REF Available
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

https://cwslc.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog125170
Anderson, Carol. New York: Bloomsbury , 2016.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 AND 2016
Availability
1 copy, 1 available
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as ?black rage,? historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, ?white rage at work. Wi…
Author
Anderson, Carol
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Publication Date
2016
Physical Description
304pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Abstract
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as ?black rage,? historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, ?white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,? she writes, ?everyone had ignored the kindling.?
Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House.
Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
ISBN
978-1632864130
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 AND 2016

Copies

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