White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

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We consider a challenge to our racial worldviews as a challenge to our very identities as good, moral people.

Hamad, who lives in Australia, offers a global perspective as she deftly renders the reach of this “maternal colonialism”. I'd expect a reporter to fully explore and verify information on topics beyond their expertise before committing them to paper. Raelee Lancaster in The Saturday Paper praises Hamad as she “challenges society to face the discrimination it has normalised, and to commit to a future where white women let go of their privilege and stand with women of colour. Ajayi’s words struck a chord with me and led me to look back over my life, forcing me to recognise with some degree of horror that what many people see when they look at me is a generic facsimile of an Arab, someone without their own inner world. White fragility is not weakness … it is a powerful means of white racial control and the protection of white advantage.An explosive and revelatory argument for deconstructing and confronting the entrenched notions of white supremacy and superiority that still reign today. A privilege, yes, but a perilous one, for to step off this pedestal meant no longer being regarded as a “woman. If you’re a person of color, this book will make you feel seen and if you are not a person of color, this book will make you uncomfortable. Ruby Hamad asks in the introduction to her essay collection White Tears/Brown Scars which tracks the fraught legacy of White womanhood across the globe. Skillfully blending autobiography, history, and cultural criticism, Hamad makes a devastating case against white women's complicity in systemic racism.

This sparked countless debates across the country, much like the one Francis was engaged in with her co-panellists Harris Faulkner, Juan Williams and Marie Harf. That the voices of “women of colour” are getting louder and more influential is a testament less to the accommodations made by the dominant white culture and more to their own grit in a society that implicitly – and sometimes explicitly – wants them to fail. That doesn’t mean we are always in the right but it does mean we know that against a white woman’s accusations, our perspectives will almost always go unheard either way. Hamad’s conversations with scholars, journalists, humanitarian employees and other professional women of colour about their experiences with white women’s defensiveness and gaslighting in personal and professional settings punctuate the text.I know what is in my heart and I know that I don’t think anyone is different, better or worse based on the colour of their skin,’ her voice cracked. A] provocative exploration of the ways—both historic and current—that white women have been dangerous agents of white supremacy . Hamad offers a comprehensive look at the ways in which women of color have been dismissed by society . Hamad's White Tears/Brown Scars depicts poignantly the effects white feminism has had on women of colour. White women can dry their tears and join us, or they can continue on the path of the damsel—a path that leads not toward the light of liberation but only into the dead end of the colonial past.



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