Summary of Ruby Hamad's White Tears/Brown Scars

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had written an article titled How white women use strategic tears to silence women of color that was shared on Facebook by Lisa Benson, an Emmywinning AfricanAmerican television journalist in Kansas City. She was fired soon thereafter for creating a hostile working environment based on race and gender.
#2 Black and brown women are often the victims of gendered racism, and it can be difficult to explain and prove. When they try to shed light on their experiences, they are often disbelieved.
#3 The tears of white women are the most powerful because they are attached to the symbol of femininity. They are the ones who have been painted as helpless against the whims of the world, and yet they are the ones who receive the most protection.
#4 I was unprepared for the response. It got off to a slow start because the Northern Hemisphere was still asleep, but by the end of the day, the piece had been picked up by The Guardian in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Sujets

• Women's studies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669373346
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ruby Hamad's White Tears/Brown Scars
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had written an article titled How white women use strategic tears to silence women of color that was shared on Facebook by Lisa Benson, an Emmy-winning African-American television journalist in Kansas City. She was fired soon thereafter for creating a hostile working environment based on race and gender.

#2

Black and brown women are often the victims of gendered racism, and it can be difficult to explain and prove. When they try to shed light on their experiences, they are often disbelieved.

#3

The tears of white women are the most powerful because they are attached to the symbol of femininity. They are the ones who have been painted as helpless against the whims of the world, and yet they are the ones who receive the most protection.

#4

I was unprepared for the response. It got off to a slow start because the Northern Hemisphere was still asleep, but by the end of the day, the piece had been picked up by The Guardian in the United States and the United Kingdom.

#5

I knew that an apology would not placate the online bullies, and that they would only validate their narcissistic injury by using it to attack me again and again. I had written a piece that was common knowledge among communities of color, and I lobbed it like a grenade into one of the white bastions of liberalism.

#6

The term white fragility was coined by sociologist Robin DiAngelo to describe the defensiveness into which many white people retreat when reminded of their race. It is important to understand that white fragility is not legitimate or innocent distress, but rather a powerful means of white racial control.

#7

Until we confront race, it will continue to affect our lives in ways we may never consider. The extent to which we, as individuals, match the stereotypical features associated with our gender is the deciding factor on how others perceive us and treat us.

#8

Women of color are constantly subjected to both racism and sexism, which is known as misogynoir. White women often side with men of color when they are attacked for being aggressive, but when women of color are attacked for being too aggressive, white women are the first to call them out as bullies.

#9

Women of color are rarely given the benefit of the doubt, and are even less likely to be considered worthy of sympathy and support.

#10

The oriental woman is no more than a machine. She makes no distinction between one man and another. She is confined to the circle of occupations of a smoking, going to the baths, painting her eyelids and drinking coffee.

#11

The Hunger Games trilogy is a post-apocalyptic future where people live permanently on the edge of starvation. In the book, Rue is a twelve-year-old innocent who is drawn to Katniss, who reminds her of her own younger, fairer sister. However, many fans reacted negatively to the casting of Amandla Stenberg as Rue.

#12

The perceived incongruity of a Rue and an Annie who are both black and innocent is a manifestation of the anxieties and entitlements of the white settler-colonial identity, which has long claimed innocence for itself and guilt for everyone else.

#13

The image of the black woman as the insatiable Jezebel was prevalent in the slavery era and continued into the early 20th century. The abuse of black women served at least three functions: it terrorized the black population in order to reinforce white domination, it provided a source of continuous labor, and it was a sexual outlet for white men.

#14

While there were some willing encounters between white men and black women in this period, the majority of black women were treated as though they were animals, and the degradation of black women was used as proof of the women’s inherent lascivious nature.