White Fragility Summary

White Fragility Summary

The book "White fragility" is written by Robin DiAngelo and published in the year 2018 by Beacon press. The writer emphasizes the incapability of white people for the conversation about racism. The book is a New York Times best-selling book, which directed people's attention to the social issue of untouchability.

Years after the end of racism in America, the people "whites" still avoid talking about it. The narrator writes how fragile the issue of racism is. They act to live neutral and maintain racial inequality. Racism isn't only practiced by "bad people," but it's somewhere deep down in the mentality of whites. They retain white fragility in emotions and behavior towards blacks of the country.

Moreover, the writer points to liberals of society. Liberals act as they never intended to play racial, but their silence and argumentation are two sides of a coin. They choose to remain silent on this tricky topic. Their unconscious fakes anger, guilt, and love that prevents them from a cross-racial debate.

The writer researches deeply on how this white fragility develops in a person, and how it triggers them to follow it. She also tries to find solutions for the people who are suffering through it — the profound psychological idea turned into action as humility and vigilance, which is unhealthy for the human race.

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