Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

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

17 reviews

nikkipoulin's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Classism, Gaslighting, Racism, Racial slurs, Islamophobia, Sexism, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Slavery, and Xenophobia

kelleykamanda's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Incredible, insightful, timely, and accessible- highly recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Gaslighting, Slavery, Racial slurs, Genocide, War, Sexual violence, Racism, Xenophobia, and Death

Moderate: Islamophobia and Murder

Minor: Trafficking, Rape, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Forced institutionalization

leahkarge's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Islamophobia, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Trafficking, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Torture, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

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.

dominicangirl's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Gaslighting, and Xenophobia

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Violence, Gun violence, Torture, Deportation, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Trafficking, and War

tharumi's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Slavery, Classism, Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, and Misogyny

swamphag42069's review

This book was super awesome but not a fun read (personally) This brown girl felt incredibly validated and seen while reading, which was simultaneously v triggering. I am not who needs to be reading this, but would recommend all intersectional feminists who are white should. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Gaslighting, and Xenophobia

savvylit's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book thoroughly highlights and unveils several delusions that are common in the greater (white) culture of the Western world. Primary among them is the idea that white women have been unaware or innocent during some of history's worst atrocities. For instance, Hamad draws on examples from colonial America & Australia to show that white women were not only complicit in genocidal behavior but also strong proponents of it.

That's not to say that White Tears/Brown Scars is purely about betrayals of the past - it most certainly is not. Hamad discusses the past only to bolster the truth at the heart of this book: that even in modern life, a myth of white female innocence is just as common and damaging as ever. Using examples from real individuals, her own experience, and the media, Hamad outlines the ways that white women willfully use their tears and presumed "innocence" to dismiss and damage women of color. Time after time, white women have shown that if they're even mildly criticized for racist behavior, they will become belligerently sad and defensive. By taking a concern and transforming it into a personal attack, the focus of the argument then becomes centered solely on the white woman's feelings. If there's any sort of audience, other folks do their best to assuage the sad white woman. Thus, the initial concerns and distress of the person of color become completely forgotten. This is a collective delusion that gaslights women of color.

When white womanhood and its insidious associations of presumed innocence are continually prioritized and promoted, the "feminist" movement has failed. Hamad proves that equality among women is only achievable once white women are willing to acknowledge their complicity in upholding whiteness. Throughout history, whiteness has been a self-perpetuating power structure built on outright lies. We need to recognize the delusions that we continue to uphold & promote and stop centering white feelings in discussions of race.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Trafficking, Hate crime, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Racism, Misogyny, Genocide, Gaslighting, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

jailynxpaige's review

emotional informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Hate crime, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, Racism, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Violence