Anti-Racist Pedagogy Guide: Pedagogy and whiteness

• Robin DiAngelo, "White Fragility"

  In this article, DiAngelo introduces the concept of white fragility, “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.” It’s an in-depth look at a phrase that is often used at a surface level in popular media. This article is probably best used to frame societal or political conversations, as appropriate to course materials, rather than to frame classroom guidelines about discussing race. DiAngelo also offers background on historical and current concepts of race, racism, and Whiteness, and emphasizes that “White racism is ultimately a white problem and the burden for interrupting it belongs to white people.” DiAngelo suggests these interventions are made possible by working through the idea of white fragility to build stamina for conversations about race. This article may also be of use to instructors to reflect on their own and students’ perspectives and reactions to discussions of race.
  (Annotation by Elizabeth Galoozis)

• White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction by Allen W. Trelease

  Publication Date: 1979

  Trelease wrote the first history of the Klan in the Reconstruction period. Trelease writes in a narrative historical style, making the book difficult to excerpt. It is therefore best reserved as a resource for your own lectures than something to distribute in a literature or cultural studies classroom.
  (Annotation by member of ARPC)

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