White tears brown scars : how white feminism betrays 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 act...
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| Médium: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | English |
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New York :
Catapult,
c2020.
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Obsah:
- Part one. The setup
- Introduction: White tears
- Lewd Jezebels, exotic Orientals, Princess Pocahontas : how colonialism rigged the game against women of color
- Angry sapphires, bad Arabs, dragon ladies : boxed in by the binary
- Only white damsels can be in distress
- Part two. The payoff.
- When tears become weapons : white womanhood's silent war on women of color
- There is no sisterhood : white women and racism
- Pets or threats : white feminism and the reassertion of whiteness
- The rise of righteous racism : from classwashing to the lovejoy trap
- The privilege and peril of passing : colorism, anti-blackness, and the yearning to be white
- Conclusion: Brown scars.