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Had a former English teacher recommend me this (we still get coffee hehe) and I’m not too far into it but it’s already made me think about race and conversations about race differently.
I’m biracial and in the introduction, Diangelo actually talks about the “middle” and this idea of “saliency” in regards to multiracial people, and I *never* hear people talk about the multiracial experience, even if the author admits it’s too complex of a topic to cover in her book which primarily tackles the idea of white fragility. But I very much appreciated her saying that and I’m learning a lot from the book.
Jul 3, 2024
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This book rearranged how I looked at the subject matter.
Biggest argument it makes is: let's bring back class solidarity as a force for social change. Hopefully 2020 isn't as close as we come to that in our lifetimes.
Feb 13, 2024
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currently reading black skin, white masks which looks at the violence of the coloniser in the production of Blackness. as well as the violence of the colonised in rejecting their Blackness to approach proximity to whiteness. it explores all this in a sort of auto ethnographical way. and even though it was written in the context of the 50s afro francophone perspective, it’s still so incredibly important! it‘s also a good starting point for afro pessimistic theory.
May 13, 2024
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It’s important to read about how white nationalism festers in order to combat it. But also the book is largely about New College and the afterword is incredibly succinct in addressing how the white nationalist movement’s development since the turn of the century has led to the right-wing takeover of higher ed we’re seeing now.
Apr 18, 2025
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Feb 18, 2025
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This one isnt that long but it took me months because some of the grief and experiences he writes about are so raw and his writing would leave me so breathless I would have to keep taking breaks and have to set the book down for a few days. Never read anything so heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.
Jul 1, 2024
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I caught it in imax and I’d never seen it before and it was so amazing I was glued to the screen. Also it was dark when I was finding my seat and I managed to step on BOTH feet of some guy AND tripped and fell so that was a good humbling experience.
Apr 10, 2025