The Birdcage
The birdcage represents interlocking forms of oppression and white people’s ignorance of that oppression. Throughout White Fragility, DiAngelo emphasizes that people of color face different forms of economic and social barriers, like segregation, negative…
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The Pier
The pier symbolizes how white people’s defenses against racism are often propped up by false assumptions. Like a pier, it first appears that certain statements can simply stand by themselves, like the phrase “I was…
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