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

This book is complex, layered and detailed! I read it with highlighter in hand and am still digesting all the ideas. Will definitely be passing my copy along to friends!

I have seen a couple of reviews from people who feel the book is racist and blaming white women for everything that is wrong with the world. If this is your stance, then yes you are the problem. This book was written to highlight the issues that black and brown women go through when it comes to a CERTAIN TYPE of white women. If you don’t understand that, then congrats you’re a Karen. This is a phenomenal read and extremely informative. Please give it a try!

I firmly believe that your worldview is only as broad as your lived experiences, unless -- & this part is key! -- you are open to learning from others' lived experiences without the preconceived notion that yours is inherently better because it's, well, yours.I keep pausing to underline & process what I'm reading, and it is nothing short of life-altering. Ruby Hamad provides a sobering historical context for intersectional feminism that is helping me come to terms with areas where my own worldview still needs stretching.If you want to become a better ally, I can't recommend this book highly enough.

This book is fantastic! I listened to it on audible first but I bought the hard copy because there is too much that i want to quote and highlight, to remember. I plan to read it all over again. The author says everything in such a smart way, but so easy to follow and understand. I hope more people read this book and that it sinks in.

This book explains white women's tears and how they use their tears as a mechanism of defense, a retreat to safety, and ultimately, a tactic for silencing and controlling women of color. The author provides various explanations and real life occurrences to validate and support this fact (ex. The Angry Black Woman, “Karen,” “BBQ Becky”). The book has a ton of history about the initial suffering of women of color amid colonization. She also explains how white women where co-conspirators in colonizing races of color and how they were not “pure” angels as they’d like us to believe, not then and not now. Today, white women use their tears and their privilege to oppress women of color all while portraying that they are for all women (white feminism). She touches on how colonized women were not considered “women” as evident in being the “inferior” race and not being able to own their bodies having being forcibly raped and abused. White women were the standard and representation of a “woman” and white men were the representation of what was considered a “man.” How can women of color even be apart of a movement for all women (feminist movement) when colored women are not viewed as women to begin with? I personally enjoyed reading this book. I rate it a 4/5 simply because I felt the author became rather repetitive and redundant as she too often drove the same point home. It was almost as if I was rereading the same page again with a little added information or instances.