A Publisher's Weekly Best NonFiction Book 2020

A Kirkus Reviews Best NonFiction Book 2020

A Ms. Magazine Best Read of 2020

A Harper's Bazaar Best Book of 2020

A Cosmopolitan Best NonFiction Book 2020


Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, with two coveted starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publisher’s Weekly as well as a rave review from Rosa Boshier at The Washington Post. Ruby Hamad's explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white femininity and mainstream western feminism have been used as a weapon of white supremacy. Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep “ownership” of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women’s active participation in campaigns of oppression and offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.