Desire and Fate

“Anti-Racism” #2

One of the most striking things about Robin DiAngelo’s new book, NICE RACISM: HOW PROGRESSIVE WHITE PEOPLE PERPETUATE RACIAL HARM, is the extent to which it is a self-help book in the grand American tradition. In Alcoholics’ Anonymous, for example, there something called “A Twelfth Step Call,” which AA defines as “visiting an alcoholic w…