‘If you were a white man they would have negotiated with you the minute you were approached'

The chapter examines institutional anti-Black woman racism-misogynoir. The main title words reflect the everyday institutional misogynoir that enacts the violence through and against which Black women work at the intersections of gender. These words reveal the ‘white racial liberalism’ at the heart of ‘post-race’ white supremacy. ‘If you were a white man’ brings white supremacy’s continuing colonial bodily and epistemological coordinates into view, in terms of bodies of value. These coordinates continue misogynoir and deny the place of Black feminist decolonial theory in academic life. ‘If you were a white man’ is interpreted as hate speech, the source of Black woman shaming. It is also seen as white empathetic racist hate speech which speaks to white fragility and ‘white innocence making’, rather than a transformation of academia through unsuturing from white privilege.