White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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Chapter 12

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In a personal essay, relate your own experience with white supremacy and racism to DiAngelo’s ideas.

White Fragility uses a wide range of citations and examples, focusing primarily on sociology. Using some of the secondary or primary evidence from the text, analyze DiAngelo’s theory of white fragility.

Almost every chapter of the book begins with an epigraph that describes an interaction between people. Explore how these epigraphs relate to the individual chapters and book as a whole. What function do they serve? Are they effective in serving that purpose?