In a conversation with Rebecca Gale for Education Week, author of the New York Times bestselling book, White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo discusses how educators play a pivotal role in holding conversations about race, making repairs, and shifting our worldview. Its publication sent hackles into the air over the notion that white people who refuse to acknowledge their own racist tendencies are actually perpetuating the status quo and making racism worse. The “fragility” DiAngelo writes about is the near-universal response of white people to deny they harbor racist intentions.
