White Women

Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

De: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao

Narrado por: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, Deanna Anthony

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen

It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture?

As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work.

In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions: how has being "nice" helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being "nice" helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being "nice" earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white women from this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior--from tone-policing to weaponizing tears--that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitable life.

White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy. Your white supremacy. If you are in fact doing real anti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regular basis, you are not doing it right.

More Work Needs To Be Done

Listen.
Act accordingly.
Do better.
Repeat.

Stick nine more words at the end to pad out review.

Must Read

This book is great for all women but much more necessary for white women. Be prepared to question it and yourself. When that happens take a pause, reflect on your defensiveness and start reading again. Such a great tool for those wanting to learn how they are impacting others and the lived experiences of those around us. We have a role in society and it is our choice what that role looks like.

Balm for my soul

Absolutely incredible! As a Black woman, it was balm for my soul! I am immediately going to find them on social media.

IT’s About Time!

Excellent, EXCELLENT! I applaud these ladies for their insight and courage to go where no one has gone before! They have definitely HIT GOLD! May this SHOT be heard around the WORLD!

Eve

Glad I listened to this.

This book is honest, straightforward, and clearly comes from the authors’ experiences of profound pain. While, at times, the super-generalised narrative is difficult to process, it is good information to have.

Yes, You Too. ALL White Women

It is a difficult book to read, but it's important. In a system built on white supremacy, all white women participate in and benefit from racism. If you have done any reading on white privilege or intersectionality, if you've read White Fragility or if you have simply taken a moment to reflect on your own white privilege, then the background and context for this book will not come as a suprise. What may surprise you is the declaration that we (white women) are ALL racist. I didn't want to hear that. I really wanted to believe that I was better than the entitled, xenophobic Karens who yell racist slurs at random BIPOC folks on the street (and I still think I am a better person than that), but, Regina and Saria are right. I. Am. Racist. And it doesn't matter how much reading and reflecting I do, how many petitions I sign, or how many times I post on Instagram, I will continue to benefit from my whiteness to the detriment of BIPOC individuals as long as our social and governmental systems remain rooted in racism. Reading this book will not fix our broken system, but it is a good place to start.

Hard Truths … but Truths none-the-less !

Lots to digest ; many lessons worth learning, re-learning & UN-learning. This is going to challenge people to de-center themselves & sit in a lot of discomfort.

The essay on “spiritual bypassing” alone…really makes you think just how white supremacy infiltrates & distorts & metastasizes. It just rots everything from within.

Worth the effort to explore this.

Every white woman should read this book.

That’s it. Read this book if you are a white woman. Shut up and listen for once (I am also talking to myself here).

Absolutely fantastic

All white women should read this book. All. We should all want to learn more about anti racism and our own racism, even if we think we aren’t racist.

How our racism is killing us all - especially in the USA

This book really was an eye opener on how we ALL are racist and how silence is no longer an option. Our white privilege has fueled the state our country is in and it’s destroying all of us. We have to do better. Clearly. This book shows our dark secrets that we don’t want to look at or admit to but as white women- we have to, or nothing will change. This book shows us how we got to where we are and how we have to admit to ourselves that we too are to blame. I realized that I have to take accountability and make changes in my life to help our children and our country progress and make real change to survive.