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

5.0

I'm a white woman and I think I needed to hear all that's been said in the book. In full disclosure, it wasn't an easy read for me - many times I found myself getting defensive, thinking words that I normally find obnoxious ("hey-not all women..."), but in the end, of course everything Ruby Hamad is saying is true.
Starting from a definition of whiteness (a very good one, I think), discussing racist tropes in today's culture and their origins, analysing the strategies white women use to undermine people of colour and going deep into the history to explain how and why power is used, the author provided us with a compelling and comprehensive set of essays that I'm personally very likely to go back to more than once in the future.