Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

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“This book is an argument for feminism to pitch itself against a very specific frontier, that of whiteness” (176). In Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, Rafia Zakaria presents a sound critique of whiteness within mainstream feminism. Whiteness is not understood as a biological category. “You do not need to be white to be a white feminist,” Zakaria clarifies in her opening note (ix). Instead, whiteness is about the practices and ideas that contribute to perpetuating white supremacy, as the direct legacy of empire and slavery. She underlines that