Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

If you wonder whether now is the time to join our CETL book club on White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, just look at the comments as well as the like to dislike ratio on the video featuring the author on her book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHg65JORi8. Seeing the words white fragility drove 2.8 thousand people to take the time to dislike it.

Whether we teach about race or not, race and its meanings are on our students’ minds. The majority of our students have come of age at a time when our nation is engaged in a fierce battle over race and when white supremacy and white nationalism are on the rise. In White Fragility, Robin Diangelo lays out the work that needs to be done by white people to create a space for productive dialogues about race. This perspective is an important one when thinking about how to engage our students in conversations about race or when our students engage us in such conversations. Come join the conversation!