A Report On The Translation Of White Fragility—Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism(Chapters 1-2)

The source text of this translation report comes from chapter One The Challenges Of Talking To White People About Racism and chapter Two Racism And White Supremacy of White Fragility—Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism,written by Robin Diangelo,a professor and sociologist at the University of Washington and this book was published in 2018 by Beacon Press.What’s more,it has become the best seller of the year of the New York Times.The original text is an informative text,and Newmark’s communicative translation theory is the main translation theory used in this project.The article is an informative text,which mainly discusses the reasons for white people’s fragility and their racial prejudice.This book also covers a lot of background knowledge which relates to race.This article centers on white fragility and the author gets to the root cause of racism and analyses the current situation of people of color.The translator hopes that this translation report will enable domestic readers to pay attention to racial discrimination,and they can give enough thought about the possible disadvantages of racism,and this report provides a reference for readers who are interested in this field.This report mainly explores the application of communicative translation theory in informative texts,so that translators can solve various difficulties encountered in translation practice in combination with specific translation cases.Annotation,reorganization of the sentence structure,compensation for cultural default and other translation techniques are used to solve specific problems such as terminology,long and difficult sentences,cultural default so as to achieve the greatest possible transmission of information.