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‘White Fragility’ Author Robin DiAngelo’s New Book Flops, Still Makes New York Times’ Best Seller List

Ben Johnson
‘White Fragility’ Author Robin DiAngelo’s New Book Flops, Still Makes New York Times’ Best Seller List
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Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility just entered its third year on The New York Times best seller list, but her latest release — Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm — seems unlikely to match that performance. Still, it has broken onto the prestigious book list ahead of at least one better-selling book by a conservative author: Michael Knowles’ Speechless, which sold nearly twice as many copies, according to Publishers Weekly.

White Fragility saw sales skyrocket after the death of George Floyd, but her follow-up has opened to negative reviews and poor sales. “Robin DiAngelo’s last book sold over a million copies. Her new title debuted with about 3,500 sold the first week,” according to Eric Nelson of Broadside Brooks.

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