white fragility

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A range of defensive behaviors supposedly exhibited by white people in response to challenges to the unstable racial situation that gives them social privileges.

Word forms

white fragility

Etymology

Coined by Robin DiAngelo, lecturer at the University of Washington.

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