Formats

Paperback Hardback eBook
Share
Published 03-09-2019
ISBN 9780522875591
Pages 232
Subjects Feminism and feminist theory Social discrimination and social justice
Imprint MUP Digital

White Tears/Brown Scars

Ruby Hamad

Formats

Paperback Hardback eBook
Share
Published 03-09-2019
ISBN 9780522875591
Pages 232
Subjects Feminism and feminist theory Social discrimination and social justice
Imprint MUP Digital

A confronting reality check for the privileged position of the white woman.

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? Ruby Hamad provides some confronting answers.

Ruby Hamad is a Lebanese-Syrian journalist and author who was raised in Australia. Hamad's work has appeared in Fairfax media, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, and The New Arab. She is currently a PhD candidate in media and postcolonial studies at the University of New South Wales. She was a contributor to Defiant Daughters (2013).