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Robin DiAngelo
Robin Jeanne DiAngelo (née Taylor; born September 8, 1956) is an American author working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies. She formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University and is currently an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. She is known for her work pertaining to "white fragility", an expression she coined in 2011 and explored further in a 2018 book titled White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
DiAngelo was born Robin Jeanne Taylor into a working-class family in San Jose, California, the youngest of three daughters born to Robert Z. Taylor and Maryanne Jeanne DiAngelo.
She lived with her mother in poverty until her mother's death from cancer, after which she and her siblings lived with her father. She became a single mother with one child in her mid-20s, and worked as a waitress before beginning college at the age of 30.
In her youth, she believed that her poverty led to class oppression, though it was only later in life that she believed she was benefiting from white privilege, even while being "poor and white". In 2018, DiAngelo stated that her "experience of poverty would have been different had [she] not been white".
DiAngelo earned a B.A. with a double major in sociology and history from Seattle University in 1991, graduating summa cum laude as class valedictorian.
DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education from the University of Washington in 2004, completing a dissertation titled Whiteness in racial dialogue: a discourse analysis. Her Ph.D. committee was chaired by James A. Banks. In 2007, she joined the faculty of Westfield State University, where she was named associate professor of multicultural education in 2014. She resigned in 2015. She now serves as affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. She holds honorary doctoral degrees from Starr King Seminary (2019) and Lewis & Clark College (2017).
For over twenty years, DiAngelo has offered racial justice training for schools, nonprofit organizations, universities, and businesses, arguing that racism is embedded throughout American political systems and culture. In a 2019 article for The New Yorker, columnist Kelefa Sanneh characterized DiAngelo as "perhaps the country's most visible expert in anti-bias training, a practice that is also an industry, and, from all appearances, a prospering one".
DiAngelo has published a number of academic articles and books on race, privilege, and education. In 2011, she co-wrote with Ozlem Sensoy Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education, which won the American Educational Research Association's Critics' Choice Book Award (2012) and the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018).
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Robin DiAngelo
Robin Jeanne DiAngelo (née Taylor; born September 8, 1956) is an American author working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies. She formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University and is currently an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. She is known for her work pertaining to "white fragility", an expression she coined in 2011 and explored further in a 2018 book titled White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
DiAngelo was born Robin Jeanne Taylor into a working-class family in San Jose, California, the youngest of three daughters born to Robert Z. Taylor and Maryanne Jeanne DiAngelo.
She lived with her mother in poverty until her mother's death from cancer, after which she and her siblings lived with her father. She became a single mother with one child in her mid-20s, and worked as a waitress before beginning college at the age of 30.
In her youth, she believed that her poverty led to class oppression, though it was only later in life that she believed she was benefiting from white privilege, even while being "poor and white". In 2018, DiAngelo stated that her "experience of poverty would have been different had [she] not been white".
DiAngelo earned a B.A. with a double major in sociology and history from Seattle University in 1991, graduating summa cum laude as class valedictorian.
DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education from the University of Washington in 2004, completing a dissertation titled Whiteness in racial dialogue: a discourse analysis. Her Ph.D. committee was chaired by James A. Banks. In 2007, she joined the faculty of Westfield State University, where she was named associate professor of multicultural education in 2014. She resigned in 2015. She now serves as affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington. She holds honorary doctoral degrees from Starr King Seminary (2019) and Lewis & Clark College (2017).
For over twenty years, DiAngelo has offered racial justice training for schools, nonprofit organizations, universities, and businesses, arguing that racism is embedded throughout American political systems and culture. In a 2019 article for The New Yorker, columnist Kelefa Sanneh characterized DiAngelo as "perhaps the country's most visible expert in anti-bias training, a practice that is also an industry, and, from all appearances, a prospering one".
DiAngelo has published a number of academic articles and books on race, privilege, and education. In 2011, she co-wrote with Ozlem Sensoy Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education, which won the American Educational Research Association's Critics' Choice Book Award (2012) and the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018).