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The Intersectionality of Chicago Institutions and a White Woman’s Tears

Nothing has let Chicago public school policy-makers off the hook more thoroughly than the ideology of white fragility. If below average academic achievement is the result of racism alone, then…

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28 min

The Orwellian Dystopia of Robin DiAngelo’s PhD Dissertation

As I have written time and again, Robin DiAngelo’s theory of white fragility is defective on so many fronts that it is a wonder people take it seriously. But they…

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10 min

Politics

White Fragility Theory Mistakes Correlation for Causation

As I have noted before, Robin DiAngelo, the sociologist and critical race theorist who authored the bestselling book White Fragility, does not hold the “presumed neutrality of White European enlightenment…

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12 min

The Theory of White Fragility: Scholarship or Proselytization?

As I have argued elsewhere (see here, here, and here), the theory of white fragility is based on the dubious premise of implicit bias, relies on research methodology that is…

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20 min

Politics

The Epistemological Problem of White Fragility Theory

One flaw in the theory of white fragility is that it relies crucially on the paradigm of implicit bias. Papers like this one, which provides a reanalysis of an influential study…

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White Fragility

The Intersectionality of Chicago Institutions and a White Woman’s Tears

The Orwellian Dystopia of Robin DiAngelo’s PhD Dissertation

White Fragility Theory Mistakes Correlation for Causation

The Theory of White Fragility: Scholarship or Proselytization?

The Epistemological Problem of White Fragility Theory

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