How White People Handle Diversity Training in the Workplace

Confronted with their own shortcomings, white employees often shut down the dialogue—or frame themselves as victims

Robin DiAngelo
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11 min readJun 27, 2018

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As a former professor and current facilitator and consultant, I am in a position to give white people feedback on how their unintentional racism is manifesting itself. In…

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Robin DiAngelo
GEN
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Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism.