White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Audiobook (Free)

THE BRAND NEW York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white folks have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and exactly how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

With this “vital, necessary, and beautiful publication” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “we can understand racism like a practice not really restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Discussing the defensive goes that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is certainly characterized by feelings such as anger, dread, and guilt, and by actions including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any significant cross-racial dialogue. With this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.