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White tears brown scars / Ruby Hamad.

White tears brown scars / Ruby Hamad.
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ISBN 0522875580
9780522875584 (paperback)
Author Hamad, Ruby (author)
Title White tears brown scars / Ruby Hamad.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Melbourne : Melbourne University, 2019.
©2019
Description xv, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Part 1: the set-up -- 1. when racism and sexism collide -- 2. lewd jezebels, exotic orientals, princess pocahontas -- 3. angry sapphires, bad arabs, dragon ladies -- 4. only white damsels can be in distress -- part 2: the pay-off -- 5. when tears become weapons -- 6. there is no sisterhood -- 7. pets or threats -- 8. the lovejoy trap and the rise of righteous racism -- 9. the privilege and peril of passing -- conclusion: the turnaround -- 10. brown scars.
Summary When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scars blows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the dealings between women of colour and white women. What happens when racism and sexism collide? The author examines Black, Indigenous and Arab feminisms to show how white distress has been weaponised against women of colour and traces histories from Rhodesia to slave-era United States, including the BBQ Becky incident.
Subjects Women -- Crimes against
Entitlement attitudes
Race relations
Racism
Sexism
Feminism
Minority women
Call number 2020.192
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