Say her name : resisting police brutality against Black women / by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Andrea J. Ritchie ; with Rachel Anspach, Rachel Gilmer, and Luke Harris ; African American Policy Forum, Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies.

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"... gathers stories of Black women who have been killed by police and who have experienced gender-specific forms of police violence [such as sexual assault], provides some analytical frames for understanding their experiences, and broadens dominant conceptions of who experiences state violence and...

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Main Authors: Crenshaw, Kimberlé (Author)
Ritchie, Andrea J. (Author)
Anspach, Rachel (Author)
Gilmer, Rachel (Author)
Harris, Luke (Author)
Corporate Authors: African American Policy Forum
Columbia University. Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : African American Policy Forum, Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, Columbia Law School, July 2015.
Edition:July 2015 update.
Subjects:
Police brutality > United States.
African American women > Civil rights.
African American women > Crimes against.
Discrimination in law enforcement > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Police brutality.
United States.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (45 pages) : black & white illustrations, portraits.
Variant Title:
SayHerName.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Background and purpose
  • Why we must say her name : the urgent need for a gender inclusive movement to end state violence
  • Re-framing state violence : patterns of police killings against Black women
  • Driving while Black
  • Policing poverty : police brutality at the intersections of gender, race and class
  • Casualties of the war on drugs : Black women as drug "mules"
  • Violence instead of treatment : police killings of Black women in mental health crisis
  • Death in custody : Black women as "superhuman" and incapable of feeling pain
  • Guilt by association : Black women as "collateral damage"
  • Expanding the frame : gender specific forms and contexts of police violence
  • Police killings in the context of responses to violence
  • Gender and sexuality policing
  • Unseen and unsupported : Black women as targets of sexual assault
  • The use of excessive force against Black mothers and their children
  • No sympathy : police terrorize Black women who demand justice for family members
  • Conclusion.