Getting Past White Defensiveness

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 18, 2018

Robin DiAngelo, antiracist educator and author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Beacon Press, 2018), explains how the fear of being challenged racially in America fosters inequality and shuts down cross-racial dialogue.

→EVENT: Robin DiAngelo will be reading from her book at The Strand (Broadway at E. 12th St.) tonight, Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 at 7:00pm.

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