Teacher Guide

White Fragility Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

There are many voices and books in the conversation on anti-racism worth consulting, including:

-How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

-Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

-My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem is quoted in White Fragility and is used in the Day 2 classroom activity, "Clean Silence vs. Dirty Silence."

-The Racial Contract by Charles Mills

-Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith provides the epigraph to White Fragility

-White Rage by Carol Anderson

-Racial Innocence by Robin Bernstein

-White Innocence by Gloria Wekker

-Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond is an exploration into the origins of racism, citing the geographical factors that allowed white...

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