Ruby Hamad, "White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color" (Catapult, 2020)
Called \u201cpowerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling\xa0How to be an Antiracist, Ruby Hamad's\xa0White Tears/Brown Scars:\xa0How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color\xa0(Catapult, 2020) is a breakthrough work of\xa0history and cultural criticism. The book\xa0reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.\xa0\nTaking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep \u201cownership\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u2013Cortez, 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.\xa0She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront.\xa0\nConnect with Ruby Hamad (she/hers)\xa0@rubyhamadwriter on Instagram and\xa0click here\xa0to\xa0read Ruby's breakaway opinion piece for\xa0The Guardian.\nConnect with your host\xa0Lee Pierce\xa0(they/them) @rhetoriclee on Instagram and Twitter.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies