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

https://cwslc.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124053
Hamad, Ruby. New York: Catapult , 2020.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 HAM 2020
Availability
1 copy, 1 available
Called ?powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigeno…
Author
Hamad, Ruby
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Catapult
Publication Date
2020
Physical Description
284pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Abstract
Called ?powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.
Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep ?ownership? of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women?s active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.
Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio?Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront.
Along the way, there are revelatory responses to questions like: Why are white men not troubled by sexual assault on women? (See Christine Blasey Ford.) With rigor and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.
ISBN
9781-948226-745
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 HAM 2020

Copies

Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Study and Learning Commons REF Available
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

https://cwslc.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124061
DiAngelo, Robin. Boston: Beacon Press , 2018.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 DIA 2018
Availability
3 copies, 2 available
In this ?vital, necessary, and beautiful book? (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and ?allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ?bad people? (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that whit…
Author
DiAngelo, Robin
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Beacon Press
Publication Date
2018
Physical Description
168pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Abstract
In this ?vital, necessary, and beautiful book? (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and ?allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ?bad people? (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
ISBN
9780-8223-52365
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 DIA 2018

Copies

Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Study and Learning Commons REF On Loan, due Monday, February 19, 2024
Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Study and Learning Commons REF Available
Copy 3 BC Children's and Women's Study and Learning Commons REF Available
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