Robin DiAngelo

This is the long-awaited third edition of the bestselling, multi-award–winning introduction to foundational concepts in social justice education. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this comprehensive resource addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. In response to the deep divides in public discourse, this edition provides a framework for reaching common ground on issues of justice within a pluralistic democracy. The authors have updated statistics, research, and examples, and revised discussion questions and extension activities to guide classroom dialogue and engagement with today’s complex issues. New topics include the science of sex and gender, and the political backlash against equity and racial justice efforts. The authors trace the roots of white supremacy globally in the history of colonialism. Concepts such as oligarchy, kleptocracy, and capitalism’s relationship to democracy are introduced and discussed. Is Everyone Really Equal? is an up-to-date and engaging textbook and professional development resource that includes many user-friendly features, examples, vignettes, and activities to not just define but illustrate key concepts. Book Features: User-friendly features such as accessible language, “definition boxes” to reinforce concepts, “perspective checks” to acknowledge multiple viewpoints, and “stop boxes” that anticipate and address common points of resistance. A glossary that includes an explanation of social justice language and its complexities and changes over time. Discussion questions, extension activities, and exercises for book groups and classroom study. An accessible resource for instructors in disciplines including education, sociology, political science, criminal justice, nursing, social work, health sciences, gender and sexuality studies, and race and ethnic studies in the United States and Canada.

This is the long-awaited third edition of the bestselling, multi-award–winning introduction to foundational concepts in social justice education. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this comprehensive resource addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. In response to the deep divides in public discourse, this edition provides a framework for reaching common ground on issues of justice within a pluralistic democracy. The authors have updated statistics, research, and examples, and revised discussion questions and extension activities to guide classroom dialogue and engagement with today’s complex issues. New topics include the science of sex and gender, and the political backlash against equity and racial justice efforts. The authors trace the roots of white supremacy globally in the history of colonialism. Concepts such as oligarchy, kleptocracy, and capitalism’s relationship to democracy are introduced and discussed. Is Everyone Really Equal? is an up-to-date and engaging textbook and professional development resource that includes many user-friendly features, examples, vignettes, and activities to not just define but illustrate key concepts. Book Features: User-friendly features such as accessible language, “definition boxes” to reinforce concepts, “perspective checks” to acknowledge multiple viewpoints, and “stop boxes” that anticipate and address common points of resistance. A glossary that includes an explanation of social justice language and its complexities and changes over time. Discussion questions, extension activities, and exercises for book groups and classroom study. An accessible resource for instructors in disciplines including education, sociology, political science, criminal justice, nursing, social work, health sciences, gender and sexuality studies, and race and ethnic studies in the United States and Canada.

Long before the widespread success of the 2018 book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo was breaking with white solidarity and writing, speaking, and teaching on the relationship among white supremacy, structural racism, and white identity. In this volume, DiAngelo has gathered a selection of her groundbreaking works leading up to White Fragility. Speaking as a white person to her fellow white people, she seamlessly blends the personal with the political. The result is an engaging and provocative analysis of the sociopolitical forces of race that shape our lives. Taking up familiar ideologies such as individualism and meritocracy, she breaks down how these concepts function to protect and obscure structural racism. Collectively, these essays show how racism infuses our society and its institutions; it is a system that goes well beyond individual intentions or conscious acts of meanness. By changing the question from if we are part of systemic racism to how each of us play a part, DiAngelo's body of work provides a transformative framework for white identity and antiracist action. Featured Essays:Chapter 1: My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege Chapter 2: Why Can't We All Just Be Individuals? Chapter 3: My Feelings Are Not About You: Personal Experience as a Move of Whiteness (with David Allen) Chapter 4: Getting Slammed: White Depictions of Race Dialogues as Arenas of Violence (with Özlem Sensoy) Chapter 5: Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions Chapter 6: White Fragility Chapter 7: White Fragility AccessibleChapter 8: "We Put It in Terms of "Not-Nice": White Antiracists and Parenting (with Sarah Matlock)Chapter 9: Respect Differences? Challenging the Common Guidelines in Social Justice Education Chapter 10: Leaning In: A Student's Guide to Engaging Constructively With Social Justice Content (with Özlem Sensoy) Chapter 11: Showing What We Tell (with Darlene Flynn) Chapter 12: "We Are All For Diversity, But…": How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change (with Özlem Sensoy)

Long before the widespread success of the 2018 book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo was breaking with white solidarity and writing, speaking, and teaching on the relationship among white supremacy, structural racism, and white identity. In this volume, DiAngelo has gathered a selection of her groundbreaking works leading up to White Fragility. Speaking as a white person to her fellow white people, she seamlessly blends the personal with the political. The result is an engaging and provocative analysis of the sociopolitical forces of race that shape our lives. Taking up familiar ideologies such as individualism and meritocracy, she breaks down how these concepts function to protect and obscure structural racism. Collectively, these essays show how racism infuses our society and its institutions; it is a system that goes well beyond individual intentions or conscious acts of meanness. By changing the question from if we are part of systemic racism to how each of us play a part, DiAngelo's body of work provides a transformative framework for white identity and antiracist action. Featured Essays:Chapter 1: My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege Chapter 2: Why Can't We All Just Be Individuals? Chapter 3: My Feelings Are Not About You: Personal Experience as a Move of Whiteness (with David Allen) Chapter 4: Getting Slammed: White Depictions of Race Dialogues as Arenas of Violence (with Özlem Sensoy) Chapter 5: Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions Chapter 6: White Fragility Chapter 7: White Fragility AccessibleChapter 8: "We Put It in Terms of "Not-Nice": White Antiracists and Parenting (with Sarah Matlock)Chapter 9: Respect Differences? Challenging the Common Guidelines in Social Justice Education Chapter 10: Leaning In: A Student's Guide to Engaging Constructively With Social Justice Content (with Özlem Sensoy) Chapter 11: Showing What We Tell (with Darlene Flynn) Chapter 12: "We Are All For Diversity, But…": How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change (with Özlem Sensoy)

What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; segregation; and the belief that to be complicit in racism is to be an immoral person. These factors contribute to what she terms white racial illiteracy. Speaking as a white person to other white people, DiAngelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of white socialization. Weaving research, analysis, stories, images, and familiar examples, she provides the framework needed to develop white racial literacy. She describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard to see, identifies common white racial patterns, and speaks back to popular narratives that work to deny racism. Written as an accessible overview on white identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean to Be White? is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups, and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines. This revised edition features two new chapters, including one on DiAngelo’s influential concept of white fragility. Written to be accessible both within and without academia, this revised edition also features discussion questions, an index, and a glossary.

Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over twenty-five years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment and accountability. Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice, and offers people of colour an 'insider's' perspective which may be helpful for navigating whiteness.

A reimagining of the best-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action to create a more racially just world. "I was taught to treat everyone the same." "I don't see color." "My parents voted for Obama." When white people have the opportunity to think and talk about race and racism, they more often than not don't know how. In this adaptation of Dr. Robin DiAngelo's best-selling book White Fragility, anti-racist educators Toni Graves Williamson and Ali Michael explain the concept of systemic racism to young adult readers and how to recognize it in themselves and the world around them. Along the way, Williamson and Michael provide tools for taking action to challenge systems of inequity and racism as they move into adulthood. Throughout the book, readers will find the following: - A dialogue between the adaptors that models anti-racist discussions - Definitions of key terms - Personal stories from this multiracial team - Discussion prompts to encourage readers to journal their reactions and feelings - Illustrations to help concepts of white fragility and systemic racism come alive - Portraits of scholars and activists, including Carol Anderson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Ijeoma Oluo, whose work is amplified throughout Dr. DiAngelo's theory of white fragility.

A reimagining of the best-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action to create a more racially just world. "I was taught to treat everyone the same." "I don't see color." "My parents voted for Obama." When white people have the opportunity to think and talk about race and racism, they more often than not don't know how. In this adaptation of Dr. Robin DiAngelo's best-selling book White Fragility, anti-racist educators Toni Graves Williamson and Ali Michael explain the concept of systemic racism to young adult readers and how to recognize it in themselves and the world around them. Along the way, Williamson and Michael provide tools for taking action to challenge systems of inequity and racism as they move into adulthood. Throughout the book, readers will find the following: A dialogue between the adaptors that models anti-racist discussionsDefinitions of key termsPersonal stories from this multiracial teamDiscussion prompts to encourage readers to journal their reactions and feelingsIllustrations to help concepts of white fragility and systemic racism come alivePortraits of scholars and activists, including Carol Anderson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Ijeoma Oluo, whose work is amplified throughout Dr. DiAngelo's theory of white fragility.

A first of its kind, accessible, in-depth resource for leading effective white racial affinity groups--an essential tool in anti-racism for building the skills and perspectives needed for white people to challenge racism. While there are a few short articles and guides addressing the challenges and complexities of leading white affinity groups, there has never been a detailed handbook exclusively for white racial affinity group facilitators. There are many challenges in facilitating these groups including the need to have a deep theoretical understanding of racism; a high degree of racial self-awareness; sensitivity to and the ability to work with the range of skills and degrees of awareness participants bring; and strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills. The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups is the first in-depth guide for educators, mediators, workplace consultants and trainers, workplace diversity groups, community organizers, conference organizers, members of faith communities, and members of racial and social justice groups. Dr. Robin DiAngelo and Amy Burtaine, who collectively bring over 20 years of experience leading anti-racist education and racial affinity groups present: - a theoretical framework for understanding racism;- a case for the value of racial affinity groups as a tool for challenging racism;- guidelines for setting up affinity groups in a variety of contexts;- the skills and perspectives needed for effective facilitation;- scenarios to illustrate common challenges;- a glossary of definitions;- exercises, discussion prompts, and assessment tools.- an extensive list of common patterns and group dynamics and how to address them Written accessibly for a wide range of readers and backgrounds, The Facilitator's Guide for White Affinity Groups will be an important reference for anyone committed to anti-racism work.

'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller WHITE FRAGILITY'It should be mandatory reading ... Buy the book, do the work and then push more copies into the hands of everyone you know' Emma Gannon'Confrontational and much-needed' Stylist'She is no-joke changing the world and, for what it's worth, the way I live my life.'Anne Hathaway___________Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #MeAndWhiteSupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviours, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated, and over 90,000 people downloaded the book. The updated and expanded Me and White Supremacy takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources. Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. The numbers show that readers are ready to do this work - let's give it to them.

Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over twenty-five years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. These patterns include rushing to prove that we are 'not racist'; downplaying white advantage; romanticizing Black, Indigenous and other peoples of colour; pretending white segregation 'just happens'; expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism; carefulness; and shame. She challenges the ideology of Individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment and accountability. Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice, and offers people of colour an 'insider's' perspective which may be helpful for navigating whiteness.

An incisive follow-up to the New York Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of color. Racism will not be interrupted by a hug or a smile. Dismantling white supremacy requires white people to commit to a lifetime of education and accountability. Continuing the work she began in White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo challenges white readers to rethink their ideas about racism and to confront their role in maintaining it. She identifies common moves white progressives make to telegraph their niceness such as avoiding social discomfort, focusing on connections and commonalities, privileging concern for the feelings of perpetrators of racism over the victims, elevating intentions over impact, and credentialing. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, DiAngelo urges other white progressives to align their practice with their values. Drawing on over 20 years working as an anti-racist educator, DiAngelo models a path forward, helping white readers to face their complicity and embrace humility. Often touting their own liberal credentials as evidence, white progressives do not see themselves as racist and therefore, have not developed the skills necessary for examining their role in perpetuating racism. This is because white progressives are often steeped in a culture of niceness which is animated by a belief that racism is limited to bad individuals who commit intentionally violent acts. The flipside to this logic is the idea that a nice person with good intentions could never be a racist. But that's simply not the case. Racism is a system in which all white people are implicated.

I denne øjenåbnende bog udforsker Robin DiAngelo fænomenet ‘hvid skrøbelighed’: hvides uvillighed til at forstå hvidhedens rolle i den systemiske racisme. DiAngelo gennemgår de forsvarsmekanismer, som hvide giver udtryk for, når emnet falder på racisme og hvidhed: vrede, frygt, skyld eller tavshed. Bare det at blive omtalt som hvid får mange til at føle sig angrebet. Vi taler indigneret om, at vi er ‘farveblinde’, eller at vi er ‘opdraget til at behandle alle ens’, vi bliver aggressive eller sårede, hvorefter fokus hurtigt fjernes fra samtalen om hvides rolle i racismen og i stedet kommer til at handle om hvides sårede følelser. Denne modvilje mod at tale om hvidhedens rolle i racismen forhindrer os, ifølge DiAngelo, i at tage vigtige samtaler om emnet op og umuliggør reel forandring. Bogen henvender sig direkte til hvide og sætter ord på et fænomen, som nok kan vække ubehag, men som også kan være med til at skabe forandring. Hvid skrøbelighed har, siden den udkom i 2018, været med til at igangsætte et kulturelt gennembrud og har forandret samtalen om ulighed.“Styrken i ‘Hvid skrøbelighed’ ligger i dens metodiske, uomtvistelige blotlæggelse af racismen i både tanke og handling, og dens opfordring til at udvise ydmyghed ?og opmærksomhed.” – The New Yorker

"Förbluffande hur meningsfull läsningen blir i ett svenskt sammanhang." Kulturnyheterna SVT"Förhoppningsvis är det svenska offentliga samtalet redo att nu ta ett kliv mot en mer sofistikerad, mer komplicerad och mer träffsäker diskussion om rasismen i vårt land." Kulturnyheterna SVT"...jag gillar den inbjudande och samtidigt stränga tonen. Hur Robin Diangelo som en ambitiös lärare tar sin läsare i örat och samtidigt ger de redskap som hen behöver för att utvecklas bortom sin skörhet." Svenska Dagbladet"Boken är lite upplagd som en självhjälpsbok, en fin aspekt av Robin Diangelos genomgång..." Svenska DagbladetI denna ögonöppnande bok utforskar Robin DiAngelo det fenomen som kallas vit skörhet: vitas ovilja att förstå vithetens roll i det rasistiska systemet. På ett effektivt sätt går DiAngelo igenom de försvarsmekanismer som vita ger uttryck för när rasism och vithet kommer på tal: ilska, rädsla, skuld eller tystnad; bara det faktum att bli tilltalade som vita får många att känna sig angripna. Denna olust att prata om vithetens roll i rasismen förhindrar, enligt DiAngelo, viktiga samtal och omöjliggör reell förändring. Den vänder sig direkt till vita och sätter ord på något som kan vara obekvämt, men som också kan vara livsförändrande. Vit skörhet har sedan den utkom 2018 fått ett ofattbart kulturellt genomslag och förändrat samtalet om ojämlikhet i USA. Vit Skörhet är bästsäljaren som har fått vita amerikaner att börja prata om sin roll i rasismen.

"Förbluffande hur meningsfull läsningen blir i ett svenskt sammanhang." Kulturnyheterna SVT"Förhoppningsvis är det svenska offentliga samtalet redo att nu ta ett kliv mot en mer sofistikerad, mer komplicerad och mer träffsäker diskussion om rasismen i vårt land." Kulturnyheterna SVT"...jag gillar den inbjudande och samtidigt stränga tonen. Hur Robin Diangelo som en ambitiös lärare tar sin läsare i örat och samtidigt ger de redskap som hen behöver för att utvecklas bortom sin skörhet." Svenska Dagbladet"Boken är lite upplagd som en självhjälpsbok, en fin aspekt av Robin Diangelos genomgång..." Svenska DagbladetI denna ögonöppnande bok utforskar Robin DiAngelo det fenomen som kallas vit skörhet: vitas ovilja att förstå vithetens roll i det rasistiska systemet. På ett effektivt sätt går DiAngelo igenom de försvarsmekanismer som vita ger uttryck för när rasism och vithet kommer på tal: ilska, rädsla, skuld eller tystnad; bara det faktum att bli tilltalade som vita får många att känna sig angripna. Denna olust att prata om vithetens roll i rasismen förhindrar, enligt DiAngelo, viktiga samtal och omöjliggör reell förändring. Den vänder sig direkt till vita och sätter ord på något som kan vara obekvämt, men som också kan vara livsförändrande. Vit skörhet har sedan den utkom 2018 fått ett ofattbart kulturellt genomslag och förändrat samtalet om ojämlikhet i USA. Vit Skörhet är bästsäljaren som har fått vita amerikaner att börja prata om sin roll i rasismen.

Förbluffande hur meningsfull läsningen blir i ett svenskt sammanhang. Kulturnyheterna SVTRobin DiAngelos kärnanalys är skarp, tankeprovocerande och den skickar explosivt meningsfulla impulser in i den svenska debatten: om du vägrar se ras kan du inte se rasism. Kulturnyheterna SVTFörhoppningsvis är det svenska offentliga samtalet redo att nu ta ett kliv mot en mer sofistikerad, mer komplicerad och mer träffsäker diskussion om rasismen i vårt land. Kulturnyheterna SVT...jag gillar den inbjudande och samtidigt stränga tonen. Hur Robin DiAngelo som en ambitiös lärare tar sin läsare i örat och samtidigt ger de redskap som hen behöver för att utvecklas bortom sin skörhet. Svenska DagbladetBoken är lite upplagd som en självhjälpsbok, en fin aspekt av Robin DiAngelos genomgång... Svenska DagbladetI denna ögonöppnande bok utforskar Robin DiAngelo det fenomen som kallas vit skörhet: vitas ovilja att förstå vithetens roll i det rasistiska systemet. På ett effektivt sätt går DiAngelo igenom de försvarsmekanismer som vita ger uttryck för när rasism och vithet kommer på tal: ilska, rädsla, skuld eller tystnad; bara det faktum att bli tilltalade som vita får många att känna sig angripna. Denna olust att prata om vithetens roll i rasismen förhindrar, enligt DiAngelo, viktiga samtal och omöjliggör reell förändring. Den vänder sig direkt till vita och sätter ord på något som kan vara obekvämt, men som också kan vara livsförändrande. Vit skörhet har sedan den utkom 2018 fått ett ofattbart kulturellt genomslag och förändrat samtalet om ojämlikhet i USA. Vit Skörhet är bästsäljaren som har fått vita amerikaner att börja prata om sin roll i rasismen.

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people' (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

The International Bestseller'With clarity and compassion, DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to "bad people." In doing so, she moves our national discussions forward. This is a necessary book for all people invested in societal change' Claudia RankineAnger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction. Robin DiAngelo coined the term 'White Fragility' in 2011 to describe this process and is here to show us how it serves to uphold the system of white supremacy. Using knowledge and insight gained over decades of running racial awareness workshops and working on this idea as a Professor of Whiteness Studies, she shows us how we can start having more honest conversations, listen to each other better and react to feedback with grace and humility. It is not enough to simply hold abstract progressive views and condemn the obvious racists on social media - change starts with us all at a practical, granular level, and it is time for all white people to take responsibility for relinquishing their own racial supremacy.'By turns mordant and then inspirational, an argument that powerful forces and tragic histories stack the deck fully against racial justice alongside one that we need only to be clearer, try harder, and do better' David Roediger, Los Angeles Review of Books'The value in White Fragility lies in its methodical, irrefutable exposure of racism in thought and action, and its call for humility and vigilance' Katy Waldman, New Yorker'A vital, necessary, and beautiful book' Michael Eric Dyson

Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality Antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo first coined the term "white fragility" in 2011, and since then it's been invoked by critics from Samantha Bee to Charles Blow. "White fragility" refers to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially. These include emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors including argumentation and silence. In this book, DiAngelo unpacks white fragility, explaining the underlying sociological phenomena. She'll draw on examples from her work and scholarship, as well as from the culture at large, to address these fundamental questions: How does white fragility develop? What does it look like? How is it triggered? What can we do to move beyond white fragility and engage more constructively?

This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this comprehensive resource includes many new features such as discussion of contemporary activism. The text includes many user-friendly features, examples, and vignettes to not just define but illustrate key concepts.