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Introduction - Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018.

• Robin Diangelo is a white woman, sitting beside a black woman, facing a group of white people seated before them.

• They are in their workplace and have been hired to lead the group in a dialogue about race.

• The room is filled with tension and charged with hostility.

• Diangelo has just presented a definition of racism that includes the acknowledgement that white people hold social and institutional power over people of color.

• A white man is pounding his fist on the table, proclaiming that white folks cannot gets jobs anymore.

• Diangelo looks around the room and sees a sea of white, and wonders why this man is so angry.

• White people in North America...

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