A review by meritm
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

I've been wanting to read this for a while and finally got it from the library as an audiobook. First off, I'd like to mention that I thought the narrator was very well chosen. She did an excellent job and it was easy to follow her. The book divided into 8 chapters, each very interesting and for me eye-opening as I had previously had trouble understanding how deeply rooted in colonialism our stereotypes today are and how impossible it is to differentiate between racism and sexism when it comes to discrimination against women of colour. Ruby Hamad explained the historic origins and modern developments very well while giving a lot of examples. In about 7 hours she managed to go through several hundred years and almost all continents. Sometimes I did not understand how things she had mentioned before and the topic she was currently discussing fit together until the very end. 
Also, the title and cover of this book are so well chosen!! I thought this was very informative and a good pick for my "obligatory" non-fiction, educative read :)
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