You know that something is different when the hottest beach read of the season is a two-year-old work of non-fiction by an academic who spent more than 20 years running diversity-training for American companies and corporations. “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,†by Robin DiAngelo amazingly displaced the new “Hunger Games†prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes†atop last week’s USA Today’s best-selling books list. It was also No. 1 on The New York Times non-fiction list and the Amazon chart of most-sold non-fiction. Books on systemic racism, white supremacy, mass incarceration, racial injustice and race relations are suddenly dominating all three lists.
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