{"product_id":"white-tears-brown-scars-how-white-feminism-betrays-women-of-colour","title":"White Tears Brown Scars","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'P\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eowerful and provocative'\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eHow to be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MUST read for any white women who consider themselves \"feminist\"'\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eScarlett Curtis, author of the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eFeminists Don't Wear Pink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An explosive and revelatory argument for deconstructing and confronting the entrenched notions of white supremacy and superiority that still reign today.' - Mireille Harper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'How is it that we have been so conditioned to privilege the emotional comfort of white people?'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhite tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon, but they have long been used as a dangerous and insidious tool against people of colour, weaponised in order to invoke sympathy and divert blame.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep 'ownership' of their slaves, through centuries of colonialism, when women offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, in which tears serve as a defense to counter accusations of bias and micro-aggressions, \u003ci\u003eWhite Tears\/Brown Scars\u003c\/i\u003e 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 colour and an urgent call-to-arms in the need for true intersectionality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith rigour and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialised within, a reality that we must all apprehend in order to fight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"White Tears Brown Scars : How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour","offer_id":46982561169605,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-3987-0310-0.jpg?v=1790036308","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/white-tears-brown-scars-how-white-feminism-betrays-women-of-colour","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}