White Women
Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
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White Women
Narrated by:
Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, Deanna Anthony
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Narrated by:
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Regina Jackson
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Saira Rao
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Deanna Anthony
About this listen
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.
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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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I’m grateful to the authors for creating it
Brilliant!
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Powerful and honest
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This book has articulated for me some awkard behaviour I observe and left me feeling odd from interactions colleagues, heads of departments in the child care sector.
I'm based in a part of the world where the mentality communicated silently and more often politically is: "foreigners" already here should be grateful and don't complain about anything and most definitely not racism. The rest of the visibly foreign foreigners are even more unwelcome or more often than not, met with the saviour complex, silence or hostility.
American history occurs in a vacuum. As does the insidious aftermath of European colonialism. The blank people of Belgium, and Europe at large, are nice, intelligent, meritoriously entitled, innocent and right.
I really appreciated Regina and Saira's voices and sisterhood. I felt seen and heard and spoken up for as they outed all versions of supposed fragility.
This book has inspired me even though I feel unsafe at every turn because of my proximity to nice white women. Fortunately I have one close friend who is doing the work, without the trumpets and beds, medals, whistles and celebrations 🍾 She is genuine and has skin in the game. She's going to love this book for what it will awaken in her.
I'm keeping my eyes heart and hands open for initiatives like this to take shape. Kindness to kne another without me needing to be in the room.
Thank you both.
Refreshing
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It’s easy to think, But what about my own struggles? And that’s precisely the point. Until we fully face and work through our own issues as white women, we’ll continue perpetuating this cycle within a society that ultimately harms us all. We often feel insecure, competitive, and threatened by non-white women, whether it’s their beauty, intelligence, strength, or charisma, and have been conditioned to believe we should come first. But this mentality makes us sad, resentful, and fearful. This book challenges us to step up, to cultivate courage, and to break this toxic cycle.
How many of us have witnessed bullying, sexism, or racism and remained silent? How often do we avoid discussing racism, especially among other white people? We need to be honest with ourselves and face how often we’ve felt threatened by a Black or Brown woman and responded with dirty looks, gossip, or even attempts to sabotage her, all because of our own insecurities. This is where we need a reckoning. We have not been true allies. We’re often comfortable helping a token Black or Brown person, but rarely do we go beyond that. We enjoy feeling adored and looked up to, yet we must ask ourselves if this is truly healthy or normal behaviour.
This book will either help you or infuriate you, the choice is ultimately yours.
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