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Name of the book:
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Author:
Ruby Hamad
Genre:
Non-Fiction
Publisher:
Catapult
Year of Publication:
2020
Number of Pages:
284
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women. It offers a long-overdue validation of the experiences of women of color. Taking us from the slave era - when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves - through the centuries of colonialism - when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics - to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars Examining subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and nineteenth-century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad builds a powerful argument about the entrenched systems of white supremacy that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.
Tags:
Politics, History, Feminism, Race, Contemporary, Social Justice, Sociology, Anti Racist
Status:
Available
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