White Women

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

By: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao

Narrated by: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, Deanna Anthony

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.

More Work Needs To Be Done

Listen.
Act accordingly.
Do better.
Repeat.

Stick nine more words at the end to pad out review.

Must Read

This book is great for all women but much more necessary for white women. Be prepared to question it and yourself. When that happens take a pause, reflect on your defensiveness and start reading again. Such a great tool for those wanting to learn how they are impacting others and the lived experiences of those around us. We have a role in society and it is our choice what that role looks like.

Balm for my soul

Absolutely incredible! As a Black woman, it was balm for my soul! I am immediately going to find them on social media.

IT’s About Time!

Excellent, EXCELLENT! I applaud these ladies for their insight and courage to go where no one has gone before! They have definitely HIT GOLD! May this SHOT be heard around the WORLD!

Eve

Glad I listened to this.

This book is honest, straightforward, and clearly comes from the authors’ experiences of profound pain. While, at times, the super-generalised narrative is difficult to process, it is good information to have.