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Ella Creamer

Author Robin DiAngelo accused of plagiarism over doctoral thesis

Robin DiAngelo during an interview in 2020.
DiAngelo during a 2020 interview. The author said plagiarism accusations should not be guided ‘by partisan actors with a well-documented agenda to discredit anti-racism work’. Photograph: NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images

Robin DiAngelo, the author of a number of books on racism including White Fragility and Nice Racism, has been accused of plagiarism over her doctoral thesis.

A complaint citing 20 instances of alleged research misconduct was lodged with the University of Washington – where DiAngelo is an affiliate associate professor of education and completed her PhD – according to the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news site that has published a number of similar complaints against diversity officials and staff of colour at US universities.

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