While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Racism is a complex and interconnected system that adapts to challenges over time. Colorblind ideology was a very effective adaptation to the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing ideologies of individualism and meritocracy. They also do… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“We would often lead workshops in offices that were 95-100% white, and yet the participants would bitterly complain about Affirmative Action. This… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between agreement and understanding: When discussing complex social and institutional dynamics such as racism, consider whether "I don't… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“If, as a white person, I conceptualize racism as a binary and I see myself on the "not racist" side, what further… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
