White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Robin DiAngelo

our need to qualify that we are speaking about black history or women’s history suggests that these contributions lie outside the norm.

The dimensions of racism benefiting white people are usually invisible to whites. We are unaware of, or do not acknowledge, the meaning of race and its impact on our own lives. Thus we do not recognize or admit to white privilege and the norms that produce and maintain it.