White Fragility: When a Spoon Full of Sugar Isn’t Quite Enough

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Friday July 31, 2020 - Saturday August 1, 2020
      11:00 am - 12:59 pm
  • Location: Online
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Contact

For more information, please contact sdie@gatech.edu.

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Join Pearl Alexander and Cheryl Cofield for a community conversation exploring White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Dr. Robin DiAngelo.

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Join Pearl Alexander and Cheryl Cofield for a community conversation exploring White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Dr. Robin DiAngelo. Participants will explore factors that lie at the root of discomfort when discussing race; examine language that is designed to mitigate racial stress;  dissect the false binaries of good vs. bad relating to racism; and learn strategies to transcend silence, complicity and inaction.

  • July 31, 2020
  • 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

A BlueJeans link will be sent to all who register shortly before the session.

Register here.

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Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (IDEI), Staff Diversity

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Training/Workshop
Keywords
white fragility diversity workshop
Status
  • Created By: tjohnson372
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jul 20, 2020 - 2:50pm
  • Last Updated: Jul 20, 2020 - 2:50pm