Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2021
224 pages
978-0-14-199743-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 socialized. 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 twenty-five 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. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers 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.
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. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers 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.
Reviews / Votes
If you want to get beyond feeling defensive and increase your capacity for effective anti-racist action, do yourself a favor and read this book! -- Beverly Daniel Tatum Illuminating...her work continues to be invaluable to the project of ending white supremacy -- Resmaa Menakem Powerful... reveals why profound racism is often found in supposedly liberal spaces... Nice Racism interrogates the machinery of white progressiveness and how these gears actually work -- Koa Beck * The Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-199743-8 (9780141997438)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2022
Penguin Books Ltd
€14.50
Available immediately
Book
06/2021
Allen Lane
€42.27
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies. She is a lecturer at the University of Washington and formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University. DiAngelo has been a consultant and trainer for more than twenty years on issues of racial and social justice.
