Robin DiAngelo alleged to have copied parts of doctoral thesis from Asian-American scholars.

The bestselling author of a book about “white fragility” has been accused of plagiarising sections of the work of two Asian-Americans in her doctoral thesis.

Robin DiAngelo, an anti-racism consultant who argues that racial divisions have been entrenched by “defensive” white people, committed 20 cases of plagiarism, according to a complaint filed with her alma mater, the University of Washington.

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Her thesis allegedly lifts two paragraphs from Thomas Nakayama, an Asian-American professor with Northeastern University, and his co-author, Robert Krizek, without attribution, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

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Her “Whiteness in Racial Dialogue” dissertation is also reported to have lifted material from Stacey Lee, an Asian-American professor of education, summarising the work of a third scholar.