What Does it Mean to be White in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive Racial inequality and segregation, most White people cannot answer that question.
Written to be accessible both within and without academia, this Revised Edition also features discussion questions, an index, and a glossary..
This Revised Edition features two new chapters, including one on DiAngelo\'s influential concept of White fragility.
Written as an accessible overview on White identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean to Be White? is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups, and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines.
She describes how race shapes the lives of White people, explains What makes racism so hard to see, identifies common White Racial patterns, and speaks back to popular narratives that work to deny racism.
Weaving research, analysis, stories, images, and familiar examples, she provides the framework needed to develop White Racial literacy.
Speaking as a White person to other White people, Diangelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of White socialization.
These factors contribute to What she terms White Racial illiteracy.
In the second Edition of this seminal text, Robin Diangelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about What racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; segregation; and the belief that to be complicit in racism is to be an immoral person.
What Does it Mean to be White in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive Racial inequality and segregation, most White people cannot answer that question
