Nice Racism by Robin DiAngelo review – appearances can be deceptive
The authorâs style is to combine typically condescending accounts of her own encounters with white progressives (often while in the role of trainer and facilitator of anti-racist workshops across the US) with analytical exposition. Throughout the book, she assumes the role of an omniscient narrator of anti-racist truth, which grates. One third of Nice Racism is devoted to a single chapter, The Moves of White Progressives, in which DiAngelo calls time on âseeking absolutionâ/âthe need to be racially forgivenâ, âexpecting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Col...