Summary
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 in the dealings between women of colour and white women.
What happens when racism and sexism col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522875584 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522875580 |
| Author: | Ruby Hamad |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 338g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 154mm x 233mm |
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Ruby Hamad
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).
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