Essential reading for white people, regardless of their experiences in discussing and engaging issues of race. Inextricable from any conception of "white culture" (itself a concept which most refuse to accept as a culture at all but more a neutral absence of culture) are a history of supremacy (re: the aforementioned belief in its absence) and a desperate motivation to retain that comfort of neutrality.
While DiAngelo does not explicitly identify the problem in this way, she more exactly exposes the various strategies and assumptions which result from it, chapter by chapter, mirror by mirror. It's not comfortable reading, and careful readers must monitor our own emotional responses to her assertions.

Nevertheless, DiAngelo dispenses with issues of guilt and shame and sees the work ahead as an opportunity, optimistic (guardedly) that perhaps white people can do the work that we have so long avoided. Race conflict is not inherent to communities of color but it is absolutely rooted in the psychologies of those who defined color as difference.