Long before the widespread success of the 2018 book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo was breaking with white solidarity and writing, speaking, and teaching on the relationship among white supremacy, structural racism, and white identity. In this volume, DiAngelo has gathered a selection of her groundbreaking works leading up to White Fragility. Speaking as a white person to her fellow white people, she seamlessly blends the personal with the political. The result is an engaging and provocative analysis of the sociopolitical forces of race that shape our lives. Taking up familiar ideologies such as individualism and meritocracy, she breaks down how these concepts function to protect and obscure structural racism. Collectively, these essays show how racism infuses our society and its institutions; it is a system that goes well beyond individual intentions or conscious acts of meanness. By changing the question from if we are part of systemic racism to how each of us plays a part, DiAngelo's body of work provides a transformative framework for white identity and antiracist action. Featured Essays: Chapter 1: My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege Chapter 2: Why Can't We All Just Be Individuals? Chapter 3: "My Feelings Are Not About You": Personal Experience as a Move of Whiteness (with David Allen) Chapter 4: Getting Slammed: White Depictions of Race Dialogues as Arenas of Violence (with OEzlem Sensoy) Chapter 5: Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions Chapter 6: White Fragility Chapter 7: White Fragility Accessible Chapter 8: "We Put It in Terms of 'Not-Nice': White Antiracists and Parenting (with Sarah Matlock) Chapter 9: Respect Differences? Challenging the Common Guidelines in Social Justice Education Chapter 10: Leaning In: A Student's Guide to Engaging Constructively With Social Justice Content (with OEzlem Sensoy) Chapter 11: Showing What We Tell (with Darlene Flynn) Chapter 12: "We Are All For Diversity, But...": How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change (with OEzlem Sensoy)
Robin DiAngelo is an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her publications include Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (2nd Ed.), cowritten with OEzlem Sensoy, which received book awards from both the American Educational Studies Association and the Society of Professors of Education.
Contents Series Foreword James A. Banks ?ix Introduction ?1 1. ?My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege ?5 2. ?Why Can't We All Just Be Individuals? Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Antiracist Education ?18 3. ?"My Feelings Are Not About You": Personal Experience as a Move of Whiteness ?45 Robin DiAngelo and David Allen 4. ?Getting Slammed: White Depictions of Race Discussions as Arenas of Violence ?71 Robin DiAngelo and OEzlem Sensoy 5. ?Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions ?105 6. ?White Fragility ?126 7. ?White Fragility: An Abbreviated Version for Non-Academic Readers ?147 8. ?"We Put It in Terms of Not-Nice": White Antiracists and Parenting ?154 Sarah A. Matlock and Robin DiAngelo 9. ?Respect Differences? Challenging the Common Guidelines in Social Justice Education ?184 OEzlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo 10. ?Stop Telling That Story! Danger Discourse and the White Racial Frame ?211 11. ?Leaning In: A Student's Guide to Engaging Constructively With Social Justice Content ?221 Robin DiAngelo and OEzlem Sensoy 12. ?Showing What We Tell ?254 Robin DiAngelo and Darlene Flynn 13. ?"We Are All for Diversity, But . . ." : How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change ?275 OEzlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo Index ?309 About the Author ?319
