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White Women

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

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White Women

By: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
Narrated by: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, Deanna Anthony
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 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. Gender Studies Racism & Discrimination Social Sciences Discrimination Social justice
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It’s not easy but listen hard, all white women need to. I was certain I was not racist, not even close. Now I understand better, much better: white peoples are all racist, it’s baked in. Whether we wake up to this and truly do something about this and white super is up to white people.

I’m more than grateful for the authors’ direct approach, they pull no punches and as other reviewers have said it needs to be this way.

The fact the authors jointly narrate this, with no BS made it impossible for me to not take seriously. They call out so much that needs to be called out about white culture in general, there was much relief in this. There are a couple of times where Regina is laughing as she reads because the examples of white woman racism are so preposterous, these and other moments made this reading so alive and bought the messages home good and proper. I’m grateful for their candour, this book and the Race2Dinner initiative and Deconstructing Karen film.

I highly recommend listening to (and reading in print) Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey who beautifully speaks to the damage White Supremacy and the capitalist system have done and continue to met out. Her manifesto is a god send to us all, if we pay attention….

Next step real action.

It’s not easy but listen hard, all white women need to

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Please listen, the direct manner of it is needed, I got so much out of it and will continue to.
I’m grateful to the authors for creating it

Brilliant!

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Honest, challenging, thought provoking, and much needed. This book will ask you to look at yourself and your behaviour in a way you likely won’t have done before. It’s not easy. But you must do it. I needed to do it. We all need to do it.

A necessary listen for all white women

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I am white, I read this book and I will start working on myself. Excellent

For all white women

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I enjoyed the personal stories and passionate, eloquent delivery of the narrators. White privilege blinded me to a lot of the structural barriers and toxic interpersonal dynamics that are apparent in their stories. Listening to this book inspired feelings of frustration, anger, disillusionment - but also great hope and inspiration for a future of racial justice.

Powerful and honest

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