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 active pa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Catapult,
[2020]
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| Summary: | 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. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Australia in 2019 by Melbourne University Press. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 284 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781948226745 194822674X |