Download White Tears/Brown Scars PDF
2020
Title | White Tears/Brown Scars |
---|---|
Authors | Ruby Hamad |
Genres | History: Specific Events & Topics Social & Cultural History Social Discrimination |
Publisher | Catapult |
ISBN | 9781948226745 |
Called "powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and 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 tells a charged story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront.Along the way, there are revelatory responses to questions like: Why are white men not troubled by sexual assault on women? (See Christine Blasey Ford.) With rigor and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight."A stunning and thorough look at White womanhood that should be required reading for anyone who claims to be an intersectional feminist. Hamad's controlled urgency makes the book an illuminating and poignant read. Hamad is a purveyor of such bold thinking, the only question is, are we ready to listen?" --Rosa Boshier, The Washington Post
More Books You May Like

The Husband's Secret
'What would you do if you found a letter in the attic, addressed to you, from your husband - to be opened in the event o...

Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
“Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction…A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem bo...

The Unplugged Alpha by Richard Cooper
Most men today are sent off into society with a broken belief system, which they use to make choices, that get them terr...

Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson
Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of Amer...

Bush at War
With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush a...