White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143136439)

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.

Author: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
ISBN-10: 0143136437
ISBN-13: 9780143136439
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 156
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2022
Booklist 10/01/2022 pg. 8