What Is Black Fragility? Define Black Fragility
A part of "Intersectional Concepts: Terms of Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Political Activism" by Luis Albert Rosales, a dictionary of modern racial, ethnic, and culturally-related terms found in activist communities in the United States.
black fragility
noun
- the defensive behavior of black people when confronted by opposing discussions and arguments about racial identities and racial dynamics outside of the Black American experience, especially in moments where they feel vulnerable, marginalized, or invalidated by other ethnic minorities of a similar or the same race.
Example: "Black fragility is common when non-American minorities discuss racial matters with black people who are blinded by blackness."