Is White Fragility (2018) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 98 / 100 (very WOKE (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Robin J. DiAngelo, 2018.
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Why: Anti-racism book on white defensiveness in discussions of race
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress. Although white racial insulation is somewhat mediated by social class (with poor and working class urban whites being generally less racially insulated than suburban or rural whites), the larger social environment insulates and protects whites as a group through institutions, cultural representations, media, school textbooks, movies, advertising, and dominant discourses. Racial stress results from an interruption to…