A review by p_tremuloides
What Does It Mean to Be White?; Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo

5.0

In the wake of everything that's happened recently with BLM and Native Lives Matter, I read this book as a way to find more talking (and listening) points to people who are adamantly holding onto racist ideology -- and as a way of re-awakening my own self-awareness about my white privilege. I loved that this book was easy to read, with helpful "remember..." sections parsed out in each chapter highlighting especially important information, and the type of conclusions in each chapter that anyone who has tried desperately to cram information has come to love -- meaning conclusions that could be read as a way of saying, "Oh man, I just had this conversation, and it didn't go as well as I'd have liked, let me review what DiAngelo had to say about that..."