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White Tears Brown Scars
White Tears Brown Scars | Ruby Hamad
"Powerful and provocative" - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist For readers of Layla F. Saad's Me and White Supremacy and Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, White Tears/Brown Scars is an explosive book of history and cultural criticism that reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of colour. White tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon, but they have long been used as a dangerous and insidious tool against people of colour, weaponised in order to invoke sympathy and divert blame. Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep 'ownership' of their slaves, through centuries of colonialism, when women offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, in which tears serve as a defense to counter accusations of bias and microaggressions, 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 colour and an urgent call-to-arms in the need for true intersectionality. A must-read for anyone shocked by the statistic that fifty-two per cent of white women voted for Trump, this compelling and meticulously researched book explores how the division between the innocent white women and the racialised, sexualised woman of colour was created, and demonstrates exactly why these stereotypes are crucial to confront and deconstruct. With rigour and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialised within, a reality that we must all apprehend in order to fight.
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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The history that is needed to understand how race and mainly white women shaped the world by known and unknown manipulation. Interestingly this book has convinced me to read White Fragility which I have been avoiding.
This is well written, highly researched and insightful. Drawing lines across the world showing how wealthy and whiteness have benefited and moved societies and individuals.

ChaoticMissAdventures I appreciate how in her conclusion she classification of whiteness as a narcissistic identity. This comparison, and the analysis between the diagnosis and the cultural actions is blatantly obvious once pointed out. 2y
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bookwrm526
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I learned a lot from reading this book and I think it paired nicely with the biography of Ida B Wells that I finished earlier in February. A lot of the things she talks about you could see play out in the life and activism of Wells.

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JohnLAndBenji
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The attitude of Hamad on white men is quite extreme. She takes a quote from a pervert Ernestine Hill. and applies it to all white men “The black woman understands only sex,” page 31. I am not denying abuse to blacks from the age of slavery, but there were many white men that didn‘t own slaves. On pages 36 and 37, she blames a children‘s movie (Pacohantis) for sexualization of and violence against native women. See continuation below.

JohnLAndBenji When men give their life for women it is romantic, but when Pochahontis gives her life for her man, Ruby gets cheesed! To be fair though, the Gone with the wind book is a dumpster fire of racism and I understand why she hates it. (edited) 2y
JohnLAndBenji The types of injustices she protests are serious, and I can‘t argue that lots of the injustices that white men have done are atrocities, and one of the women Ruby uses as an example on page 55 was Josefa Segovia. (content warning) She should have been praised for defending herself, and compensated, but she was executed for harming the men who tried to **** her. The justice system in this case was cruel and senseless and worth protesting… 2y
JohnLAndBenji I‘m not going to read the whole book, but there are lessons to be learned about white male abuse on people of color, and that it still is an issue to this day, but the author never seems to address that there are exceptions to her stereotype. I have other things to read, but I hope this is a fair partial book evaluation. (edited) 2y
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Sydneypaige
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Yup, this is necessary reading for white feminists. It‘s the first book I‘ve read about white feminism that is global - rather than American centric - and includes struggles from the Middle East to Australia. Ruby brings insight and knowledge into a conversation that can struggle to gain traction in main stream spaces because white women move the conversation away from our responsibilities of the perpetuation of white supremacy. An important read.

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JohnLAndBenji

I purchased this book today for my kindle app. I look forward to reading it.

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Augustdana
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Finished this one the other night and it was one of the most informative and easy to understand books I‘ve ever read! She‘s such a great writer and explains so clearly the problem with white feminism. Excellent, must read, five stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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candority
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Interesting and well-written. I really appreciated the focus on Middle Eastern and Indigenous women, as most of the books I've read on this topic focus more on Black women or WOC in general.

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LittlebearReads
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This is a really well-written book detailing how traditional white feminism, both past and present, can be harmful to BIPOC women. Hamad relies heavily on her personal experiences and interviews, but backs up her points with scholarly material when needed. Not only is this book educational, it is also entertaining at times and easy to digest despite the serious subject matter.

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rsteve388
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Wow, there is a lot in this book that should make white women take stock and seriously consider their behavior, morals and decisions around how we have continued to shape and support White Supremacy. White men built it, but white women shaped it. There is a lot of questions that need to be answered l. This audiobook was hard hitting and took serious punches at white women for their continued harm to Black, Brown , Indigenous and Women of Color

Scochrane26 Have you read Ain‘t I a Woman? 3y
rsteve388 @Scochrane26 I have not, that's by Sojourner Truth right? 3y
Scochrane26 @rsteve388 It‘s by bell hooks. She took the title from Sojourner Truth‘s speech. I read it in November, but she wrote it in the ‘70s, I think. A shorter book but worth reading. 3y
rsteve388 Ah, very cool. I'll see if I can find a copy of it as an audiobook. 3y
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Ghostnipps
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This book is fantastic with analyzing the power structure dynamics of white feminism and the weaponization of white women‘s tears that uphold the status quo of white supremacy and the patriarchy. I also loved the chapter that talked about how leftist political spaces so very often focus their class solidarity on whiteness, and how they fail to see that race plays a big part in class identity. This book is a must read!

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