White Fragility

How to Read This Book

Introductions

CHAPTER 1
Why Talking About Race Can Be So Hard for White People

CHAPTER 2
Racism, Supremacists, Supremacy

CHAPTER 3
“Non-Racist” Is Not a Thing

CHAPTER 4
How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People?

CHAPTER 5
The Good/Bad Binary

CHAPTER 6
Why Does Racism Always Seem So Black and White?

CHAPTER 7
So What Exactly Is White Fragility?

CHAPTER 8
What Does White Fragility Look Like in Action and How Does It Get in the Way?

CHAPTER 9
Media Analysis—Social and Otherwise

CHAPTER 10
From Fragility to Agility

Acknowledgments
Additional Resources
Notes
Index
About the Authors

Dr. Robin DiAngelo is an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. She has been a consultant, an educator, and a facilitator on issues of racial and social justice for more than twenty-five years. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including the New York Times bestsellers White Fragility and Nice Racism. Find her online at robindiangelo.com.

Toni Graves Williamson is a diversity practitioner and consultant, now serving as Director of Equity and Inclusion at Friends Select School in Philadelphia. She specializes in developing student leadership and programming for grades PK-12. Toni is a principal consultant of the Glasgow Group, a consortium of school educators that provides professional development and coaching to schools and other organizations. She is co-director and facilitator for The Race Institute for K-12 Educators, a non-profit organization that provides a space for educators to do the deep personal work of understanding their racial identities. She is a contributing author to The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys and Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls. She is a native and proud Southerner, but currently resides in Philadelphia.

Ali Michael, PhD is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators. She works with schools and colleges across the country to help make the research on race and education more accessible to educators. Part of her research and writing focuses on parenting for anti-racism, including what White children need to know about race to be contributing members of a multiracial society. Her goal is to support White people to have healthy, productive conversations about race in which they see how they can take an active role in working for racial justice. She is the author of the award-winning book Raising Race Questions and co-editor of the bestselling Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys. Ali lives in Philadelphia with her

With this adaptation, Williamson (who is Black) and Michael (who is White) do far more than edit DiAngelo s text; they take its fundamental concepts and thoughtfully contextualize them for their audience, referencing both media and events that postdate the original work s 2018 publication . . . . Throughout, the co-adapters offer illustrative personal anecdotes, and they set up hypotheticals grounded in the world of teen readers.
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