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White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Saira Rao, Regina Jackson
2 reviews
skudiklier's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I truly think this book should be required reading for every white woman. It's fairly comprehensive and it's so much more direct than other antiracism books I've read; there's no way you can read this without at least considering your own racism and the ways you perpetuate white supremacism.
This book isn't perfect (it weirdly never mentions capitalism despite that feeling a bit like the elephant in the room at some points) but it doesn't need to be. It's an amazing wake-up call for white women and I really think we'd make a lot more progress more quickly if we could just snap our fingers and have everyone read this. And not just read it, but really really think about how your own racism plays into this.
This book isn't perfect (it weirdly never mentions capitalism despite that feeling a bit like the elephant in the room at some points) but it doesn't need to be. It's an amazing wake-up call for white women and I really think we'd make a lot more progress more quickly if we could just snap our fingers and have everyone read this. And not just read it, but really really think about how your own racism plays into this.
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism
Moderate: Police brutality, Pandemic/Epidemic, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Murder, Slavery, Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, Violence, Islamophobia, and Classism
Minor: Pregnancy, Deportation, Mass/school shootings, Eating disorder, and Bullying
saskiahill's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
A must read. Some of the descriptions brought such clarity to topics I had an inkling of, but didn't necessarily have the words for. Powerful, motivating, and the good kind of uncomfortable.
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Cultural appropriation, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Racism
Moderate: Police brutality, Murder, Slavery, Gun violence, Genocide, and Colonisation
Minor: Racial slurs and Pandemic/Epidemic
There are uncomfortable topics covered by this book, but they are discussed as bad things, they're not encouraged or supported in the text. E.g. there are explicit examples of cultural appropriation, but the book is pointing out why this is wrong.
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