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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo. 2,650 ratings, 3.96 average rating, 371 reviews. Open Preview. Nice Racism Quotes Showing 1-30 of 34.
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- “It is white people’s responsibility to be less fragile; people of color don’t need to twist themselves into knots trying to navigate us as painlessly as possible.”
- “I believe that white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color. I define a white progressive as any white person who thinks he or she is not racist, or is less racist, or in the “choir,” or already “gets it.”
- “I was co-leading a workshop with an African American man. A white participant said to him, "I don't see race; I don't see you as black." My co-trainer's response was, "Then how will you see racism?"
- “The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people is at the root of virtually all white defensiveness on this topic.”
Jun 26, 2021 · Robin DiAngelo’s new book “Nice Racism” is built around a startling claim: White progressives can cause the most daily harm to people of color.
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In Chapter 2, DiAngelo invokes scholar Marilyn Frye’s metaphor of a birdcage to describe the forces of oppression. Frye says that if you press your face against a birdcage’s wires, you will no longer see the wires and will only see the bird. If you look to the side, you will see one wire. Confused as to why the bird doesn’t walk around the one wire...
In Chapter 3, DiAngelo refutes a common assumption that young people today are less racist than before. She cites that white children develop a sense of racial superiority by the time they are in preschool. Over time, they learn to edit their racist behavior in the presence of a white adult, but they will actively perpetuate it when the adult is no...
In Chapter 12, DiAngelo relays this thought n the book’s final lines. She notes that neither being an antiracist educator nor working on her own white fragility are clean or easy tasks. She uses the final chapter to acknowledge her own biases as a white woman despite her position as an antiracist educator and researcher. Working against racism is a...
Aug 3, 2021 · Avoiding signs of unearned racial confidence (“credentialing,” “out-woking,” and “rushing to prove that we are not racist” are on DiAngelo’s list of white-progressive moves), all the ...
Feb 18, 2022 · “Over-smiling allows white people to mask an anti-blackness that is foundational to our very existence as white,” she writes in Nice Racism. DiAngelo says that all people not perceived as ...
Jun 18, 2020 · You may not think of yourself as racist, but Robin DiAngelo says that "nice white people" are still complicit in racist structures. DiAngelo has tips to help white people break from apathy...
