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Proposed multiple intriguing ideas about why it’s so difficult for white people to admit racism as an issue. As a Mexican woman. I am grateful to have picked up this book. I’ve witnessed many instances of hostility directed towards others for simply mentioning the concept of race. This book is so far helping me acknowledge the psychological reasoning behind this phenomenon

Chapter 6 explores anti-blackness and the framing of Black people as the primary racial “other.” It shows how white identity is formed in opposition to Blackness to sustain superiority. Because anti-blackness is deeply embedded and rarely named, it fuels defensiveness and irrational reactions at the core of white fragility and the harm it causes people of color.