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  • Published: 14 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780141997421
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

Nice Racism

How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm




An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour

Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over twenty-five years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward.

Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment and accountability. Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice, and offers people of colour an 'insider's' perspective which may be helpful for navigating whiteness.

  • Published: 14 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780141997421
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for Nice Racism

If you want to get beyond feeling defensive and increase your capacity for effective anti-racist action, do yourself a favor and read this book!

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Illuminating...her work continues to be invaluable to the project of ending white supremacy

Resmaa Menakem

Powerful... reveals why profound racism is often found in supposedly liberal spaces... Nice Racism interrogates the machinery of white progressiveness and how these gears actually work

Koa Beck, The Guardian