Research Catalog

Title

White tears brown scars : how white feminism betrays women of color / Ruby Hamad.

Author

Hamad, Ruby

Publication

• New York : Catapult, [2020]
• ©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xvii, 284 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• "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."--
• "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 tells the story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. 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." -- Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

White tears/brown scars : how white feminism betrays women of color

Subject

• Racism
• Entitlement attitudes
• African Americans > Women > Social aspects
• Sexism
• Race relations
• Women > Crimes against
• Feminism > Social aspects
• White feminism > Social aspects
• Feminism and racism

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Note

• Originally published in Australia in 2019 by Melbourne University Press.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284).

Contents

Part one. The setup -- Introduction: White tears -- Lewd Jezebels, exotic Orientals, Princess Pocahontas : how colonialism rigged the game against women of color -- Angry sapphires, bad Arabs, dragon ladies : boxed in by the binary -- Only white damsels can be in distress -- Part two. The payoff. -- When tears become weapons : white womanhood's silent war on women of color -- There is no sisterhood : white women and racism -- Pets or threats : white feminism and the reassertion of whiteness -- The rise of righteous racism : from classwashing to the lovejoy trap -- The privilege and peril of passing : colorism, anti-blackness, and the yearning to be white -- Conclusion: Brown scars.

Call Number

Sc D 22-698

ISBN

• 9781948226745
• 194822674X

LCCN

2020931161

OCLC

1196187210

Author

Hamad, Ruby, author.

Title

White tears brown scars : how white feminism betrays women of color / Ruby Hamad.

Publisher

New York : Catapult, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284).

Cover Title

White tears/brown scars : how white feminism betrays women of color

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-698