{"product_id":"white-tears-brown-scars-how-white-feminism-betrays-women-of-color-by-ruby-hamad-author","title":"White Tears\/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaking 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Tears\/Brown Scars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscussing subjects as varied as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Games\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52959694782780,"sku":"9781948226745","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/9781948226745.jpg?v=1775504516","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/white-tears-brown-scars-how-white-feminism-betrays-women-of-color-by-ruby-hamad-author","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}