The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically repositions the antiviolence movement by putting women of color at its center. The contributors shift the focus from domestic violence and sexual assault and map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world. The volume's thirty pieces—which include poems, short essays, position papers, letters, and personal reflections—cover violence against women of color in its myriad forms, manifestations, and settings, while identifying the links between gender, militarism, reproductive and economic violence, prisons and policing, colonialism, and war. At a time of heightened state surveillance and repression of people of color, Color of Violence is an essential intervention.
Contributors. Dena Al-Adeeb, Patricia Allard, Lina Baroudi, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), Critical Resistance, Sarah Deer, Eman Desouky, Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Dana Erekat, Nirmala Erevelles, Sylvanna Falcón, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Emi Koyama, Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, maina minahal, Nadine Naber, Stormy Ogden, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Beth Richie, Andrea J. Ritchie, Dorothy Roberts, Loretta J. Ross, s.r., Puneet Kaur Chawla Sahota, Renee Saucedo, Sista II Sista, Aishah Simmons, Andrea Smith, Neferti Tadiar, TransJustice, Haunani-Kay Trask, Traci C. West, Janelle White
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- Praise
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- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Reconceptualizing Antiviolence Strategies
- 1. Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies: Lessons from the Black Women’s Movement in Britain
- 2. Disability in the New World Order
- 3. Federal Indian Law and Violent Crime
- 4. Feminism, Race, and Adoption Policy
- 5. The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice
- 6. Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing
- 7. A Call for Consistency: Palestinian Resistance and Radical US Women of Color
- II. Forms of Violence
- 8. The Color of Violence
- 9. Four Generations in Resistance
- 10. The War to Be Human / Becoming Human in a Time of War
- 11. The Forgotten “—ism”: An Arab American Women’s Perspective on Zionism, Racism, and Sexism
- 12. Reflections in a Time of War: A Letter to My Sisters
- 13. Don’t Liberate Me
- 14. “National Security” and the Violation of Women: Militarized Border Rape at the US-Mexico Border
- 15. The Complexities of “Feminicide” on the Border
- 16. INS Raids and How Immigrant Women are Fighting Back
- 17. Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color
- 18. Crime, Punishment, and Economic Violence
- 19. Pomo Woman, Ex-Prisoner, Speaks Out
- 20. The War Against Black Women, and the Making of NO!
- 21. Medical Violence Against People of Color and the Medicalization of Domestic Violence
- III. Building Movement
- 22. Unite and Rebel! Challenges and Strategies in Building Alliances
- 23. Sistas Makin’ Moves: Collective Leadership for Personal Transformation and Social Justice
- 24. Disloyal to Feminism: Abuse of Survivors within the Domestic Violence Shelter System
- 25. Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex
- 26. Trans Action for Social and Economic Justice
- 27. “The Personal is the Private is the Cultural”: South Asian Women Organizing Against Domestic Violence
- 28. An Antiracist Christian Ethical Approach to Violence Resistance
- 29. Taking Risks: Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability Strategies
- 30. poem on trying to love without fear
- Endnotes and Works Cited
- Index
- About the Contributors
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