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" As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives. "
Robin DiAngelo
Racism
Lead
Mentor
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" What I do used to be called 'diversity training,' then 'cultural competency' and now, 'anti-racism.' These terms are really useful for periods of time, but then they get coopted, and people build all this baggage around them, and you have to come up with new terms, or else people won't engage. "
Robin DiAngelo
Training
Diversity
People
" One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed, blamed, and attacked. "
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Through
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Protect
" Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced. "
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" I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism. "
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My Life
Group
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" This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture. But mainstream sources - schools, textbooks, media - don't provide us with the multiple perspectives we need. "
Robin DiAngelo
Swimming
Water
Culture
" White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives. "
Robin DiAngelo
Consciousness
White
Deeply
" There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular. "
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Color
Ways
Women
" Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy. "
Robin DiAngelo
Reality
Energy
Face
" The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how. "
Robin DiAngelo
Need
Question
Racism
" I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day, in workshops all over the country. That has allowed me to observe very predictable patterns. And one of those patterns is this inability to tolerate any kind of challenge to our racial reality. "
Robin DiAngelo
Reality
Challenge
Day
" Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such. "
Robin DiAngelo
Different
White
Racism
" Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race. "
Robin DiAngelo
Racial
Limits
Problem
" The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture. "
Robin DiAngelo
People
Goal
Living
" White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race. "
Robin DiAngelo
People
Race
White
" I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race. "
Robin DiAngelo
Race
Society
Studying
" White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility. "
Robin DiAngelo
Silence
White
Manifest
" For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular acts, and if we're good, moral people, we can't be racist - we don't engage in those acts. "
Robin DiAngelo
Good
Rest
Racism
" While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power. "
Robin DiAngelo
Racial
People
Word
" The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years. "
Robin DiAngelo
Doing
Society
Racial
" While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group. "
Robin DiAngelo
Resources
Group
Individual
" Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do. "
Robin DiAngelo
Justice
Believe
People
" We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination. "
Robin DiAngelo
Participation
Moral
Liberal
" Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships. "
Robin DiAngelo
Value
Work
Live
" Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward. "
Robin DiAngelo
White
Forward
People
" In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them. "
Robin DiAngelo
People
Power
Face
" White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress. "
Robin DiAngelo
Time
America
People
" If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about how your race shapes you. "
Robin DiAngelo
Feedback
Race
Open
" The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education. "
Robin DiAngelo
White
Education
Humility
" In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out. "
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Racism
People
Good
" People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will. "
Robin DiAngelo
Will
People
Understand