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  • How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
  • By: Robin DiAngelo
  • Narrated by: Robin DiAngelo
  • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialised. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward.

Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. These patterns include rushing to prove that we are 'not racist', downplaying white advantage, romanticising Black, Indigenous and other peoples of colour, pretending white segregation 'just happens', expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism, carefulness and shame. She challenges the ideology of Individualism and explains why it is okay to generalise about white people and demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white listeners to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment and accountability.

Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice and offers people of colour an 'insider's' perspective which may be helpful for navigating whiteness.

©2021 Robin DiAngelo (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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a very important book. if you're a white person and you think you don't need this, you definitely do

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Incredible resource

Fantastic follow up to White Fragility, going much further to explain how racism manifests in white people and specifically those who consider themselves to be progressives. As always, DiAngelo cites and acknowledges the wisdom of multiple anti-racism authors and educators of colour, but also draws on her experience teaching white people about racism.

DiAngelo is the only white author on anti-racism I recommend to people, because her content is so relevant. Both this book and the previous one taught me how to be more open to uncomfortable learning and personal anti-racism work.

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