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Ruby Hamad presents White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Ruby Hamad presents White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color In-Person

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Join us as we celebrate Women's History month with Ruby Hamad, author of White Tears/Brown Scars in conversation with Professor Saher Selod. 

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. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.

Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront. With rigor and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.

Ruby Hamad is a journalist, author, and academic completing a Ph.D. in media studies at UNSW (Australia). Her Guardian article, ‘How White Women Use Strategic Tears to Silence Women of Color,’ became a global flashpoint for discussions of white feminism and racism and inspired her debut book, White Tears/Brown Scars, which has received critical acclaim in her home country of Australia. Her writing has also featured in Prospect MagazineThe New Arab, and more. 

Saher Selod is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Simmons University. Her research interests are in race and ethnicity, gender and religion. Her research examines how Muslim Americans experience racialization in the United States. Her book Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror (Rutgers University Press 2018) examines how Muslim men and Muslim women experience gendered forms of racialization through their surveillance by the state and by private citizens. She has published several articles in journals like Sociology Compass, the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. At Simmons University she teaches courses on Social Inequalities, Research Methods, Islamophobia, and Mass Media and Popular Culture.

 

Date:
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Time:
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Branches:
Virtual
Audience:
  Adult  
Categories:
  Author Event     City Event     Feature  
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