White Fragility (Adapted for Young Adults)

DiAngelo's landmark examination of white defensiveness around race, adapted for teenage readers. The core argument stays intact: white people in America are socialized into a racial identity that makes honest conversations about racism feel threatening — and that defensiveness, however uncomfortable, functions to protect the racial status quo. The YA adaptation makes the concepts more accessible without softening them, meeting white teenagers at the moment when racial identity is actively forming. The most important companion to All American Boys and The New Jim Crow for white readers on the Adolescent Uprising shelf — the book that explains the mechanism behind the discomfort those novels are designed to create.