Wait...Did the Author of 'White Fragility' Plagiarize People of Color In Her Doctoral Thesis?? [View all]

Author Robin DiAngelo’s 2018 book “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism” became a New York Times bestseller shortly after its release and saw a renewed buzz a couple years later amid the George Floyd protests. She has since enjoyed a career as a “diversity consultant” who encourages white people to confront their inherit racial biases.

But, according to a recent complaint filed with the University of Washington, DiAngelo plagiarized minorities in her 2004 doctorate thesis. According to the Washington Free Beacon, DiAngelo’s 2004 dissertation entitled “Whiteness in Racial Dialogue: A Discourse Analysis” allegedly contains two paragraphs that were stolen from Asian-American professor Thomas Nakayama and his coauthor Robert Krizek.

The Free Beacon notes that there was never any proper attribution crediting Nakayama and Krizek in DiAngelo’s work. DiAngelo was also accused of also plagiarizing another Asian-American professor, Stacey Lee.

An image from the Washington Free Beacon shows how DiAngelo apparently wrote Lee’s summary of scholar David Theo Goldberg’s work nearly verbatim. In total, there were 20 examples of DiAngelo’s alleged plagiarism cited in the complaint.

https://www.theroot.com/wait-did-the-author-of-white-fragility-plagiarize-p-1851634720

The RW is having a lot of fun with this, but their does seem to be problems with attribution etc.