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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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.

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.

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

I just started using Story Graph, This is a great resource. Same Username if you want to follow me. Thanks to everyone who told me about it.

Has anyone switched from Goodreads to Story Graph? I just heard about it on the For Real Book Riot Podcast. I am interested in signing up but wanted to see what other experience was.

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!