num_pages: 284
description: 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 erawhen white women fought in court to keep ownership of their slavesthrough the centuries of colonialismwhen they offered a soft face for brutal tacticsto the modern workplace White Tears/Brown ScarsExamining 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.
language: English
title: White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
publisher: Catapult