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A review by pertiwi6
White Tears / Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
5.0
‘The damsel in distress reveals that from the beginning of settler-colonial societies, race was gendered and gender was raced.’
It is hard to encapsulate the breadth of knowledge in this book. It is born of the very personal and yet seemingly universal experiences of women of colour whose attempts to address any manner of harm levelled at them are turned against them by white women claiming they are being treated unfairly. Hamad expertly breaks down this phenomenon and traces its history and insidiousness across the globe.
This is my history as a white woman as much as anyone else’s. I am firmly in colonialist camp - no less guilty because of the sexism endured but in so many ways utilising the struggle against misogyny to further exploit and marginalise BIPOC. History is so important because it does and is effecting our present! Learn and accept and work to change it!
It is hard to encapsulate the breadth of knowledge in this book. It is born of the very personal and yet seemingly universal experiences of women of colour whose attempts to address any manner of harm levelled at them are turned against them by white women claiming they are being treated unfairly. Hamad expertly breaks down this phenomenon and traces its history and insidiousness across the globe.
This is my history as a white woman as much as anyone else’s. I am firmly in colonialist camp - no less guilty because of the sexism endured but in so many ways utilising the struggle against misogyny to further exploit and marginalise BIPOC. History is so important because it does and is effecting our present! Learn and accept and work to change it!