White Women
Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
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Regina Jackson
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Saira Rao
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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.
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“Deconstructing white women and white supremacy has never been more necessary than it is right now, and I am always looking for ways to learn, grow, shut the F up, and listen. This book gives you the tools to do just that.”–Chelsea Handler
“This book dares to tell necessary truths. The kind of truths that can save lives, and if heard with an open mind and heart—may even help save the soul of this lost nation.”–Frederick Joseph, author of New York Times bestsellers Patriarchy Blues and The Black Friend
"In their recent The New York Times bestseller White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How To Do Better, Jackson and Rao are clearly more interested in confronting and challenging the subtle yet devastating ways that racism shows up than soothing, coaxing and coddling individual egos."–Forbes
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- Cj
- 13-02-23
A necessary listen for all white women
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.
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- MissJones
- 09-05-24
Refreshing
My inner white woman had to tune out on occasions because it hit too close to home on my way into work.
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.
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- hippomom
- 06-07-24
excellent & painfully honest
Essential reading for every white person. Excellent examples of how racism shows up in everyday thoughts. So much unlearning to continue doing.
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- Miss Helen J Yates
- 24-11-22
Brilliant!
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
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- DW
- 19-12-23
Powerful and honest
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.
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- Amber-Helena R.
- 02-03-24
Very well narrated by the others, must read especially for the titular white women
I really enjoyed this book, as a half white half Asian woman it was such a good read. I learned a lot of new things, but also recognized a lot of my personal experiences with racism. I would really recommend this to any white woman who wants - and should educate themselves (and to women in general though this can be triggering for BIPOC). The authors make this a great narrated listen as well. Not the monotonous narrator voices you often hear in audiobooks, but like they’re right there with you talking to you. Impactful!
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- AJ
- 14-09-23
It’s not easy but listen hard, all white women need to
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.
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- Socky
- 26-08-24
For all white women
I am white, I read this book and I will start working on myself. Excellent
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