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What Does It Mean to Be White?

Developing White Racial Literacy – Revised Edition

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Robin DiAngelo

What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; segregation; and the belief that to be complicit in racism is to be an immoral person. These factors contribute to what she terms white racial illiteracy. Speaking as a white person to other white people, DiAngelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of white socialization. Weaving research, analysis, stories, images, and familiar examples, she provides the framework needed to develop white racial literacy. She describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard to see, identifies common white racial patterns, and speaks back to popular narratives that work to deny racism. Written as an accessible overview on white identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean to Be White? is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups, and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines. This revised edition features two new chapters, including one on DiAngelo’s influential concept of white fragility. Written to be accessible both within and without academia, this revised edition also features discussion questions, an index, and a glossary.

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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2016. XI, 368 pp., num. b/w ill.
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Names: DiAngelo, Robin J., author. Title: What does it mean to be white?: developing white racial literacy / Robin DiAngelo. Description: Revised edition. | New York: Peter Lang, 2016. Series: Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education; vol. 497 | ISSN 1058-1634 Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016005919 | ISBN 978-1-4331-3110-3 (paperback: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4539-1848-7 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Whites—Race identity. | Race relations. | Racism. Classification: LCC HT1575.D53 2016 | DDC 305.809—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016005919

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