Robin DiAngelo Quotes

Robin DiAngelo
American Educator
Born: Sep 8, 1956
People Racism Time White Work You
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people. Robin DiAngelo
Time Racism People Idea Over Most Bias Effective Mean Mean People Held Conscious Adaptation
In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out. Robin DiAngelo
Good Racism People Denial Good People Out Abhorrent About More Bias Concept Suppress Likely Identity Because Conditioning Erupt Person Gets Conflicts Even Filled
I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you label a neighborhood 'bad' and avoid it, then you don't know and don't see what goes on there. And there's no human face to interrupt that narrative. Robin DiAngelo
Good You Language Face Think Everyday Tremendous Our Neighborhood Neighborhoods Bad See Know Around Narrative Label Goes Human Happen Human Face Then Avoid Violence Interrupt
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how. Robin DiAngelo
Racism People White Ourselves Shaped Forces How Were Question Ask Need
I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias. Robin DiAngelo
Free Believe Possible Bias
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through. Robin DiAngelo
World Sense Only Through Make Were Human Human Beings Lens Beings Socialized
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it. Robin DiAngelo
Change Racism Better White Relationships Our System Seek Steady Superiority Having Prevent Color Fed Overall Accept Friends Than Diet While Them Internalize Actively Default Societal Interrupt
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy. Robin DiAngelo
Reality Denial Psychic Face Matters Energy Society Other Tremendous Segregation Emotional Takes Maintaining Obvious Inequity Denying Irrational Forms Race Racial
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism. Robin DiAngelo
Life Me Class Racism Oppression My Life White Group Other Analysis Relatively Visible Locations Has-Been Insight Shaped Uncover How Been Up Privilege Efforts Grew Center Gained While Placing Race Poor Asking Each Deeper Socialized
Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system. Robin DiAngelo
Racism Challenge Focus Analysis System Prevents Individual Part Participate Course Although Does Occur Order Acts Larger Necessary
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race. Robin DiAngelo
Problem Our Ability About Like Understand Limits Trying Conversations Race Meaningful Racial User Illiteracy Technical
If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about how your race shapes you. Robin DiAngelo
Me You Feedback No Idea About Shapes Open Idea How Am Any Going Race Your
People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will. Robin DiAngelo
People Will White More Color Understand Than Means Ever
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility. Robin DiAngelo
Silence White Ways Also Withdrawal Always Manifest Functions Fragility
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering. Robin DiAngelo
People School Black Example White Jim Jim Crow Classic Classic Example Crow Segregation Color Particular Always South North Bodies Flight
While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power. Robin DiAngelo
People Word Collective Power White Everyone Our Backed Institutional Bias While Racial Describe Reserve
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression. Robin DiAngelo
People Oppression White Construct Come Concept Either Social Meaning Means Who Europe Appear Necessarily Profound
Whites have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across racial divides. Robin DiAngelo
Build Would Constructive Divides Allow Develop Had Affective Stamina Racial Across Skills Engagement Whites Cognitive
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality. Robin DiAngelo
Reality Language Example White Significance Another Without How Endeavors Use Whites Many Describe Violence Fragility
One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed, blamed, and attacked. Robin DiAngelo
Self-Defense Positions Way Characterize One-Way Blamed Attacked Through Invoke Protect Discourse Victimized Race Themselves Whites Slammed Challenged
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced. Robin DiAngelo
Racism Result Consistently Definition Definitions Hierarchies Mainstream Does How Reduce Dictionary Personal Explain Little Racial Prejudice Actions
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. Robin DiAngelo
People White Complexity Most Answer Does Question Any Cannot Mean Depth
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all. Robin DiAngelo
Feedback White Way Give Only Without Found Fragility
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. Robin DiAngelo
Stress White Defensive State Intolerable Range Minimum Becomes Moves Which Racial Even Amount Fragility
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people. Robin DiAngelo
Rights People Values White Consistently Only Myriad Shared Operating Practices Times Afforded Experiences Dynamic Which Processes Commonly Perspectives Whiteness Include Beliefs Actually Basic Levels Basic Rights
Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do. Robin DiAngelo
Justice People Whatever Believe Faculty Most Integrated Automatically Social Social Justice Certainly
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