Interested in learning and talking about antiracism?
UBC Psychology faculty, students, and staff are invited to join the department’s Equity Committee at their next Book Club discussion on November 30.
The next book for discussion is Nice Racism – How progressive white people perpetuate racial harm by Robin DiAngelo.
About the Book
Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.
In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized, and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm.
Purchase the novel from UBC Bookstore, Massy Books, Hager Books, Book Warehouse, and the Vancouver Public Library. Find another local bookstore in your area.
