Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling 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 o...

Quando Ruby Hamad denuncia sul «Guardian» il vittimismo che le donne bianche spesso usano come arma quando una donna di colore le mette di fronte al loro razzismo, si rende conto di aver toccato un nervo scoperto.Nonostante la reazione violenta e incontrollata di molte persone all'articolo, l'autrice decide di non tirarsi indietro. Nasce così Lacrime bianche / ferite scure, che ci mette di fronte a una scomoda verità: dalla schiavitù e il colonialismo fino alla contemporaneità, le donne bi...

Called "powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling 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 o...