Robin DiAngelo

About the author: quoting from the book's back cover, "[Dr.] Robin Diangelo is an academic lecturer, and author and has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice for than twenty years. She formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at the Westfield State University." Michael Eric Dyson said of this work, "[It is] a vital, necessary and beautiful book, a bracing call to white folk everywhere to see their whiteness for what it is and to seize the opportunity to make things better now." This book includes a list of Resources for Continuing Educations and has chapter notes.… (mehr)

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I have a strong suspicion Ms. Di'Angelo wouldn't even let the Pope claim not to be a participant in White Racism, because, if I understand her correctly, like it or not, it comes with the territory of being white.
I see her point though, that it is often the folks trying the hardest not to be a part of the problem who'll refuse to look at how they might be. (Notice I seem to leave myself out of that statement?) Like all the folks she talks to in her seminars, I'm pretty sure I would resist being presumed a white racist, but I'm open to taking a closer look at my assumptions and assess possible unwitting micro-aggressions.… (mehr)