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

“Powerful and provocative." —Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestseller How to be an Antiracist

This 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

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 ...