white fragility

English

Etymology

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

Noun

white fragility (uncountable)

  1. (social sciences) A range of defensive behaviours supposedly exhibited by white people in response to challenges to the unstable racial equilibrium that gives them social privileges.
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