A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day,… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from… — 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
