Elif ’s Reviews > White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color > Status Update

Love it so far. The author explains how Black women were sexualized during slavery by white men due to their curvy bodies and the perception that they wore 'less.' But at the same time, during the era of settler colonialism, white men sexualized Muslim women, viewing the veil as an accessory of seduction by the western imagination. They considered only white women as worthy of respect and dignity