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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm Hardcover – 29 Jun. 2021
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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. These patterns include rushing to prove that we are 'not racist'; downplaying white advantage; romanticizing Black, Indigenous and other peoples of colour; pretending white segregation 'just happens'; expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism; carefulness; and shame. She challenges the ideology of Individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. 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.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date29 Jun. 2021
- Dimensions16.2 x 2.4 x 24 cm
- ISBN-100241519357
- ISBN-13978-0241519356
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With the hard-earned insights that come from years of study and leading workshops on racism, Robin DiAngelo captures the strategies often used by well-intentioned white people to avoid the self-examination needed to confront their own unrecognized racism. 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, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
In this illuminating follow-up to White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo integrates sharp insight, personal vulnerability, and compassionate guidance with the keen eye of an 'insider.' Focusing specifically on the more subtle patterns of white progressives, her work continues to be invaluable to the project of ending white supremacy -- Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
"Spectacular! With the precision of a social scientist, Robin DiAngelo dissects and puts under the microscope seemingly benign 'white moves'-including her own-in ways that make undeniable how each functions to recalibrate white dominance and comfort again and again. A critical tool for white progressives wanting to know better so we can do better -- Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
A powerful new book from the author of White Fragility reveals why profound racism is often found in supposedly liberal spaces... Highly instructional, with pertinent questions for white readers who consider themselves sufficiently "woke" or have felt "attacked" in discussions around race, Nice Racism interrogates the machinery of white progressiveness and how these gears actually work -- Koa Beck ― The Guardian
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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. These patterns include rushing to prove that we are 'not racist'; downplaying white advantage; romanticizing Black, Indigenous and other peoples of colour; pretending white segregation 'just happens'; expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism; carefulness; and shame. She challenges the ideology of Individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. 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.
About the Author
Robin DiAngelo, PhD is an academic, lecturer, and author working in the fields of critical discourse
analysis and whiteness studies. She is an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. DiAngelo has been a consultant and educator for more than twenty years on issues of racial and social justice and is the author of the international bestseller White Fragility
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- Publisher : Allen Lane; 1st edition (29 Jun. 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0241519357
- ISBN-13 : 978-0241519356
- Dimensions : 16.2 x 2.4 x 24 cm
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If you are serious about the mission of anti-racism read, reflect and rethink.
Wales aims to be an anti-racist country by 2030, the book has reminded me that there's a lot of work to be done to achieve that goal. This book will help motivate and inspire new ideas.
Thank you Robin 😊
Description 🔖
Robin DiAngelo’s first book; White Fragility explored the concept of all white people being socialised into a system that is inherently racist. In this follow up work, DiAngelo discusses how white progressives unintentionally cause the most racial harm. She uses her background and vast experience as a sociologist to open the conversation about how niceness does not equate to anti-racism
General Thoughts 🤔
I think that this follow up book to White Fragility was just as good and just as informative. Again, I agreed with many of the points raised emphatically because they were scenarios that I have encountered and lived; I know them to be true. What this book made me realise is that I’m disappointed in myself for not being braver and speaking out when well-meaning white people have made me feel less than or uncomfortable. At the very least, why am I not able to do this with people that I consider to be close to me? Which probably loops back to white fragility; I don’t want to upset people and make them feel uncomfortable.
The downplaying of white privilege and attitudes about individualism really struck a chord with me. I am almost certain that many of the white people that I know would claim that they have not received any preferential treatment because of their whiteness and any successes that they have are due to their own individual hard work. I don’t doubt that they have worked hard, but this statement is flawed due to the fact that they did not start from the same place as people of colour will have started from; they had a head start just because of their whiteness. This is not a statement that sits well with white progressives as is well documented within this book.
Writing Style ✍️
Similar to the first book, I thought that this one was structured and organised in a way that made all of the information digestible and easy to understand. I felt like Nice Racism included more real life examples from the authors experiences that helped to make her explanations relatable. I appreciated that the examples used weren’t only statements or actions of other people. The author included evidence of times when she herself has perpetuated racial harm. I found her explanations of how she addressed and dealt with those incidents informative.
I read some quite unsavoury and negative reviews about White Fragility after I had read it and it pleased me to see that some of that was directly addressed in this book.
Conclusion & Scoring 🎖️
As I’ve said in other blog posts, I find reviewing books like this really difficult as they do invoke and draw out a lot of emotional feelings for me, but I don’t find it easy to pack all of that into a review. I also don’t think that a review is the place for that. I am thankful for Robin DiAngelo’s work as I think that is educating for me and others and helps to at the very least, see things from a perspective that is not your own.
https://sarahinreaderland.com/2021/06/23/arc-review-nice-racism-how-progressive-white-people-perpetuate-racial-harm/
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2021
Description 🔖
Robin DiAngelo’s first book; White Fragility explored the concept of all white people being socialised into a system that is inherently racist. In this follow up work, DiAngelo discusses how white progressives unintentionally cause the most racial harm. She uses her background and vast experience as a sociologist to open the conversation about how niceness does not equate to anti-racism
General Thoughts 🤔
I think that this follow up book to White Fragility was just as good and just as informative. Again, I agreed with many of the points raised emphatically because they were scenarios that I have encountered and lived; I know them to be true. What this book made me realise is that I’m disappointed in myself for not being braver and speaking out when well-meaning white people have made me feel less than or uncomfortable. At the very least, why am I not able to do this with people that I consider to be close to me? Which probably loops back to white fragility; I don’t want to upset people and make them feel uncomfortable.
The downplaying of white privilege and attitudes about individualism really struck a chord with me. I am almost certain that many of the white people that I know would claim that they have not received any preferential treatment because of their whiteness and any successes that they have are due to their own individual hard work. I don’t doubt that they have worked hard, but this statement is flawed due to the fact that they did not start from the same place as people of colour will have started from; they had a head start just because of their whiteness. This is not a statement that sits well with white progressives as is well documented within this book.
Writing Style ✍️
Similar to the first book, I thought that this one was structured and organised in a way that made all of the information digestible and easy to understand. I felt like Nice Racism included more real life examples from the authors experiences that helped to make her explanations relatable. I appreciated that the examples used weren’t only statements or actions of other people. The author included evidence of times when she herself has perpetuated racial harm. I found her explanations of how she addressed and dealt with those incidents informative.
I read some quite unsavoury and negative reviews about White Fragility after I had read it and it pleased me to see that some of that was directly addressed in this book.
Conclusion & Scoring 🎖️
As I’ve said in other blog posts, I find reviewing books like this really difficult as they do invoke and draw out a lot of emotional feelings for me, but I don’t find it easy to pack all of that into a review. I also don’t think that a review is the place for that. I am thankful for Robin DiAngelo’s work as I think that is educating for me and others and helps to at the very least, see things from a perspective that is not your own.
https://sarahinreaderland.com/2021/06/23/arc-review-nice-racism-how-progressive-white-people-perpetuate-racial-harm/
It's clearly written by some blogger with a following, so Penguin thought they could make some money off it. The generalisations and guilting of people based on their skin pigment is so staggering, I thought this must be some kind of really po-faced irony.
From what I've read, has absolutely no academic value whatsoever - just a tribal call to arms to people of a certain predisposition to blame a certain section of society for their problems (sound familiar?).
For something with actual academic value on this subject, check out 'Natives' by Akala. Ignore this trash.
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This is not a book with much light and hope, for that was never her purpose. In fact, using herself as an example of attending a dinner party with her partner where she tried to justify her own not being a racist while telling stories to a black couple how her family and others were racists served as a kind of motif for the entire book. It surfaces at times to bring home her points. Drawing substantially on discourse theory, the work of various experts in communication, cultural anthropology, sociology, and psychology, she forges a narrative that undermines “nice” before as you might expect discarding it as hardly nice at all.
Her chapter on “The Moves of White Progressives” in “credentialing,” “objectifying,” “out-working” was the heart of the book in many ways. Her book is not for those who believe we live in a post-racial society; in fact, those people simply cannot be convinced that racism exists either in themselves or others. She is aiming actually at those white progressives who want to make a difference, but have not done much interior work. Some may also find her chapter of religion instructive, but I think it could actually have gone much further in that category. Perhaps that’s an area for someone else to write!
A quotation from Ijeoma Oluo at the end presented a light of hope, but not a forgiveness motif, which Diangelo argues many white progressive want from their work: “The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself And it’s the only way forward” (181). Therein is the hope. For those whose shame in racism might lead them to silence, Diangelo says that’s merely continuing the system. I would call her book a consciousness raising book for white progressives in the way that Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving was a call to understand the way whiteness, race, and privilege function together in a swirl for many whites.