Review: DiAngelo, White Fragility (2018)

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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This book is about why white people, as an aggregate, are so bad at talking about race. The answer, which I think DiAngelo (a white woman) proves very handily, is that it is so greatly to our advantage to shut down discussions of race that we have a whole laundry list of strategies (from defensiveness to anger to tears to the utterly nonsensical claim of "reverse racism") that we aren't even consciously aware of to get us out of admitting that racism (a) exists and (b) works exclusively in OUR favor. This is an excellent book for forcing white people to THINK about their reactions, and hopefully to change them.



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