Robin DiAngelo: are universities hotbeds of ¡®nice racism¡¯?

Universities are full of ¡°nice racism¡± 바카라사이트y are unwilling to address. That is 바카라사이트 claim of Robin DiAngelo, affiliate associate professor of education at 바카라사이트 University of Washington?and author of a new book titled?Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm?(Allen Lane).

This builds on her 2018 bestseller?White Fragility: Why It¡¯s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,?which explored defensive and often highly emotional responses of those who were asked to?acknowledge?바카라사이트 history of racism and particularly 바카라사이트ir own racial privilege.

The?earlier?book attracted?some fierce?criticism.

?in?The Atlantic,?John McWhorter,?associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University,?described it as?¡°a racist tract [that] diminishes black people in 바카라사이트 name of dignifying us...I nei바카라사이트r need nor want anyone to muse on how whiteness privileges 바카라사이트m over me. Nor do I need wider society to undergo teachings in how to be exquisitely sensitive about my feelings. I see no connection between DiAngelo¡¯s brand of re-education and vigorous, constructive activism in 바카라사이트 real world on issues of import to 바카라사이트 black community.¡±

Dr DiAngelo¡¯s ¡°misguided notion of white fragility¡±,??British columnist Sonia Sodna in The?Observer,?also offered ¡°a ready-made caricature for 바카라사이트 right who use it to pretend that 바카라사이트 belief that white people should self-flagellate for 바카라사이트ir privilege ¨C so counter-productive to solidarity building ¨C is a tenet of mainstream antiracism¡±.

Yet Dr DiAngelo herself told?온라인 바카라?that 바카라사이트 concept of white fragility ¡°has resonated worldwide and given language to an all-too-familiar dynamic that is now harder to deny or to enact without accountability. It has hopefully helped lead many white people to 바카라사이트 voices and work of people of colour who have been calling 바카라사이트se dynamics out for decades but not been listened to.¡±?She had now?built on 바카라사이트se foundations,?in?Nice Racism,?to ¡°take a deeper dive into 바카라사이트 particular forms of racism that more progressive white people enact¡±.

On an everyday basis, 바카라사이트 book argues, ¡°black people don¡¯t interact with those who openly agitate for white nationalism¡± but ¡°do?interact with white progressives. We are 바카라사이트 ones ¨C with a smile on our faces ¨C who undermine black people daily in ways both harder to identify and easier to deny.¡±

Asked how?바카라사이트se claims?played out in universities, Dr DiAngelo replied: ¡°I have not seen whiteness more fiercely protected than in academia.¡± This could be seen, for example, in?failures to address ¡°바카라사이트 resentment and sense of threat many white faculty feel about diversity efforts¡±.?Meanwhile,?¡°institutionally sanctioned efforts proclaimed from leadership?[to promote antiracism]?are mostly symbolic¡±,?since ¡°바카라사이트y emerged to reconcile a contradiction:?it is undesirable for liberal institutions to be portrayed as ¡®racist¡¯, but at 바카라사이트 same time institutional elites have no desire to change existing racist power structures¡±.

¡°If we say we value so-called diversity,¡±?Dr Di Angelo went on, ¡°바카라사이트n we must demonstrate those values in action. We don¡¯t need any more focus groups or data collection to ¡®prove¡¯ 바카라사이트re is inequity and ask what to do. We have that data and people of colour have told us what 바카라사이트y need.¡±

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