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A review by lille_in_the_ville
Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It by Jessie Daniels
3.0
How you feel about this book will depend a lot on your own personal history and "positionality" and also where you are on your journey when you find it.
Daniels does a good job of exploring the many ways that white women have played a key role in white supremacy and the ways that our modern trends and lifestyles continue to create harm for BIPOC/LGBT+ folk. Like many white women, some parts of it triggered anger as I read and it was good to sit with that feeling and explore my own reactions to her points.
At times, I felt that she generalized too much from her own history and emotional reactions to it. And at other times I found her depiction of modern white womanhood unrecognizable: although I realize that popular trends mean that a lot of people are subscribing to them, not everyone watches Law & Order after hot yoga class while scrolling Goop and the latest Kardashian gossip.
The relatively brief conclusion was the most valuable part of the book for me, with concrete challenges and goals for white women to reassess what values they are living and take action to work toward justice. I wish this could have made up half the book, going into more detail and stories of how we can do better.
Overall, none of what's here should be news at this point, but we all start where we are and maybe this is the next book you need to read.
Daniels does a good job of exploring the many ways that white women have played a key role in white supremacy and the ways that our modern trends and lifestyles continue to create harm for BIPOC/LGBT+ folk. Like many white women, some parts of it triggered anger as I read and it was good to sit with that feeling and explore my own reactions to her points.
At times, I felt that she generalized too much from her own history and emotional reactions to it. And at other times I found her depiction of modern white womanhood unrecognizable: although I realize that popular trends mean that a lot of people are subscribing to them, not everyone watches Law & Order after hot yoga class while scrolling Goop and the latest Kardashian gossip.
The relatively brief conclusion was the most valuable part of the book for me, with concrete challenges and goals for white women to reassess what values they are living and take action to work toward justice. I wish this could have made up half the book, going into more detail and stories of how we can do better.
Overall, none of what's here should be news at this point, but we all start where we are and maybe this is the next book you need to read.