Robin DiAngelo We are products of our culture, not separate from it I recently gave a talk to a group of about two hundred employees. There were no more than five people of color in their organization, and of these five, only…
Robin DiAngelo We cling tightly to the ideology of individualism when asked to consider our own unearned advantage Individualism is a story line that creates, communicates, reproduces, and reinforces the concept that each of us is a unique individual and that our group memberships, such as race, class,…
Robin DiAngelo These ideologies make it very difficult We make sense of perceptions and experiences through our particular cultural lens. This lens is neither universal nor objective, and without it, a person could not function in any human…
Robin DiAngelo We don’t see ourselves in racial terms I am a white American raised in the United States. I have a white frame of reference and a white worldview, and I move through the world with a white…
Robin DiAngelo Making sure that others see us as having arrived None of the white people whose actions I describe in this book would identify as racist. In fact, they would most likely identify as racially progressive and vehemently deny any…
Robin DiAngelo Racism as a system into which I was socialized Personal reflections on my own racism, a more critical view of media and other aspects of culture, and exposure to the perspective of many brilliant and patient mentors of color…
Robin DiAngelo The smallest amount of racial stress is intolerable White people in North America live in a society that is deeply separate and unequal by race, and white people are the beneficiaries of that separation and inequality. As a…
Robin DiAngelo Manifestations of identity politics All progress we have made in the realm of civil rights has been accomplished through identity politics: women’s suffrage, the American with Disabilities Act, Title 9, federal recognition of same-sex…
Robin DiAngelo Identity Politics The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the attempted genocide of Indigenous people and the theft of their…
