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Robin J. DiAngelo: White Fragility: Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2018, Beacon Press) 4 stars

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them …

Review of "White Fragility: Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

It's very good. I was defending myself and individualism in my own mind as I started reading it, and had all those defenses challenged by the time I'd finished, which felt like a valuable lesson in itself, if somewhat unmooring.

A couple times, I thought I'd accidentally flipped back a page or two, and was reading something for the second time but it was just the same story or point being re-written, so the editing could have been a little tighter for my tastes.