Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

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

2 reviews

ellaniji's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Classism, Genocide, Homophobia, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Slavery, Sexism, Rape, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Body shaming, and Racism

Since this book is about white feminism, rasism and sexism are central in this book.

caseythereader's review

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Thanks to Catapult for the free copy of this book. 

Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep 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. (via Goodreads)

If you've read the basic-level antiracism books, WHITE TEARS/BROWN SCARS is your next step.

This book digs into the many shifting ways white women have used their image of being "damsels in distress" order to protect white supremacy and their power over women of color throughout history.

The author is Australian, so while much of the book focuses on American racial issues, there is a wider global perspective many books like this don't have, and it covers the oppression of all racialized people, not just Black Americans.

There are a few ideas at the end of the book that I wish were given more page time, but that's the only quibble I have, that I wish it was longer. 

Content warnings: homophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, physical abuse, police brutality, racial slurs, racism, rape, religious bigotry, sexism, slavery, trafficking, and xenophobia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, and Xenophobia