Nice Racism

How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

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  • **NEW
  • YORK
  • TIMES
  • BESTSELLERBuilding
  • on
  • the
  • groundwork
  • laid
  • in
  • the
  • New
  • York
  • Times
  • bestseller
  • White
  • Fragility,
  • Robin
  • DiAngelo
  • explores
  • how
  • a
  • culture
  • of
  • niceness
  • inadvertently
  • promotes
  • racism.**In
  • White
  • Fragility,
  • Robin
  • DiAngelo
  • explained
  • how
  • racism
  • is
  • a
  • system
  • into
  • which
  • all
  • white
  • people
  • are
  • socialized
  • and
  • challenged
  • the
  • belief
  • that
  • racism
  • is
  • a
  • simple
  • matter
  • of
  • good
  • people
  • versus
  • bad.
  • DiAngelo
  • also
  • made
  • a
  • provocative
  • claim:
  • white
  • progressives
  • cause
  • the
  • most
  • daily
  • harm
  • to
  • people
  • of
  • color.
  • In
  • Nice
  • Racism,
  • her
  • follow-up
  • work,
  • she
  • explains
  • how
  • they
  • do
  • so.
  • Drawing
  • on
  • her
  • background
  • as
  • a
  • sociologist
  • and
  • over
  • 25
  • years
  • working
  • as
  • an
  • anti-racist
  • educator,
  • she
  • picks
  • up
  • where
  • White
  • Fragility
  • left
  • off
  • and
  • moves
  • the
  • conversation
  • forward.Writing
  • directly
  • to
  • white
  • people
  • as
  • a
  • white
  • person,
  • DiAngelo
  • identifies
  • many
  • common
  • white
  • 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
  • color
  • (BIPOC); -pretending
  • white
  • segregation
  • “just
  • happens”; -expecting
  • BIPOC
  • people
  • to
  • teach
  • us
  • about
  • racism; -carefulness; -and
  • feeling
  • immobilized
  • by
  • shame.DiAngelo
  • explains
  • how
  • spiritual
  • white
  • progressives
  • seeking
  • community
  • by
  • co-opting
  • Indigenous
  • and
  • other
  • groups’
  • rituals
  • create
  • separation,
  • not
  • connection.
  • She
  • challenges
  • the
  • ideology
  • of
  • individualism
  • and
  • explains
  • why
  • it
  • is
  • OK
  • to
  • generalize
  • about
  • white
  • people,
  • and
  • she
  • 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
  • recognizes
  • the
  • existence
  • of
  • systemic
  • racism
  • and
  • white
  • supremacy
  • and
  • wants
  • to
  • take
  • steps
  • to
  • align
  • their
  • values
  • with
  • their
  • actual
  • practice.
  • BIPOC
  • readers
  • may
  • also
  • find
  • the
  • “insiders”
  • perspective
  • useful
  • for
  • navigating
  • whiteness.Includes
  • a
  • study guide.
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