Research Guides: Discussing Whiteness: White Fragility &amp; Deflections

Defining White Fragility

White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
The article that introduced the term.
Intersectional Anti-Racism: The Myth of Happy Eggs, White Fragility, and Omnivorous Fragility in the Ethical Foodscape
Dr. Harper offers a definition of white fragility and examines an example in the context of food ethics activism.
The scientific way to train white people to stop being racist
Katherine Kirkinis & Sarah Birdsong, 2016. Quartz (qz.com)

The unexamined whiteness of teaching: How white teachers maintain and enact dominant racial ideologies
Bree Picower (2009) The unexamined Whiteness of teaching: how White teachers maintain and enact dominant racial ideologies, Race Ethnicity and Education, 12:2,197-215, DOI: 10.1080/13613320902995475
Why Can’t We All Just Be Individuals?: Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Anti-racist Education
DiAngelo, R. J. (2010). Why can’t we all just be individuals?: Countering the discourse of individualism in anti-racist education. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 6(1).
Bring the Noise: Black Men Teaching (Race and) White Privilege
Brooms, D. R., & Brice, D. A. (2017). Bring the Noise: Black Men Teaching (Race and) White Privilege. Race and Justice, 7(2), 144–159. https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368716689490
Color Blind or Color Conscious? White American Mothers’ Approaches to Racial Socialization
Vittrup, B. (2018). Color blind or color conscious? White American mothers’ approaches to racial socialization. Journal of Family Issues, 39(3), 668-692.