All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join us in reading the third selection for the Antiracist Book Club, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad. 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, offering a long overdue validation of the experiences of femme-identifying women of color.
