White tears brown scars : how white feminism betrays women of color / Ruby Hamad.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781948226745
- Physical Description: xvii, 284 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Catapult, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in Australia in 2019 by Melbourne University Press. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284). |
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Subject: | Racism. Entitlement attitudes. Sexism. Race relations. Women > Crimes against. Feminism > Social aspects. |
Topic Heading: | BIPOC. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design | HT1523 .H36 2020 (Text) | 30241731 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |