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An instant New York Times Bestseller

A noholdsbarred 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

Its 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 womens tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness and strive for perfection even at the expense of antiracism 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 womenfrom this oppressive need to be nice they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behaviorfrom tonepolicing to weaponizing tearsthat uphold white supremacy society and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer more equitablelife

White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacyYour white supremacyIf you are in fact doingrealantiracism 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 regularbasis you are not doing it right