TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamad,Ruby
TI  - White tears brown scars: how white feminism betrays women of color 
SN  - 9781948226745
U1  - 305.8 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - An Hachette UK company
KW  - Racism
KW  - Entitlement attitudes
KW  - Sexism
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
N1  - Originally published in Australia in 2019 by Melbourne University Press; Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284); 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; LIB
N2  - "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
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