Color of violence : the Incite! anthology / Incite! Women of Color Against Violence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

INCITE!

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Minority women--Crimes against.

Minority women.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

325 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, [2006]

Summary:

What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement-women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them-means that we must address state, violence?

In Color of Violence, Incite! demands that we: reconsider a reliance on the criminal justice system for solving women's struggles with domestic violence; acknowledge how militarism subjects women to extreme levels of violence perpetrated from within, and without, their communities; recognize how the medical establishment inflicts violence-such as involuntary sterilization and inadequate health care-on women of color; devise new strategies for cross-cultural dialogue, theorizing, and alliance building; and much, much more.

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence was born in 2000, when more than two thousand dedicated activists from diverse communities came together to end the war being waged on women of color in the US and around the world. Now the largest multiracial, grassroots, feminist organization in the United States, Incite! boasts chapters in more than 20 cities. Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology presents the fierce and vital writing of 33 of these visionaries, who not only shift the focus from domestic violence and sexual assault, but also map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world. At a time of heightened state surveillance and repression of people of color, Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology is an essential intervention.

Contents:

I Reconceptualizing Antiviolence Strategies

1 Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies: Lessons from the Black Women's Movement in Britain / Julia Sudbury 13

2 Disability in the New World Order / Nirmala Erevelles 25

3 Federal Indian Law and Violent Crime / Sarah Deer 32

4 Feminism, Race, and Adoption Policy / Dorothy Roberts 42

5 The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice / Loretta J. Ross 53

6 Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing / Andrea Smith 66

7 A Call for Consistency: Palestinian Resistance and Radical US Women of Color / Nadine Naber 74

II Forms of Violence

8 The Color of Violence / Haunani-Kay Trask 81

9 Four Generations in Resistance / Dana Erekat 88

10 The War to Be Human / Becoming Human in a Time of War / Neferti Tadiar 92

11 The Forgotten "-ism": An Arab American Women's Perspective on Zionism, Racism, and Sexism / Nadine Naber, Eman Desouky, Lina Baroudi 97

12 Reflections in a Time of War: A Letter to My Sisters / Dena Al-Adeeb 113

13 Don't Liberate Me / S. R. 118

14 "National Security" and the Violation of Women: Militarized Border Rape at the US-Mexico Border / Sylvanna Falcon 119

15 The Complexities of "Feminicide" on the Border / Rosa Linda Fregoso 130

16 INS Raids and How Immigrant Women are Fighting Back / Renee Saucedo 135

17 Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color / Andrea J. Ritchie 138

18 Crime, Punishment, and Economic Violence / Patricia Allard 157

19 Pomo Woman, Ex-Prisoner, Speaks Out / Stormy Ogden 164

20 The War Against Black Women, and the Making of NO! / Aishah Simmons 170

21 The Medicalization of Domestic Violence / Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo 179

III Building Movement

22 Unite and Rebel! Challenges and Strategies in Building Alliances / Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez 191

23 Sistas Makin' Moves: Collective Leadership for Personal Transformation and Social Justice / Sista II Sista 196

24 Disloyal to Feminism: Abuse of Survivors within the Domestic Violence Shelter System / Emi Koyama 208

25 Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex / Critical Resistance and Incite! Women of Color Against Violence 223

26 Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice / TransJustice 227

27 "The Personal is the Private is the Cultural": South Asian Women Organizing Against Domestic Violence / Puneet Kaur Chawla Sahota 231

28 An Antiracist Christian Ethical Approach to Violence Resistance / Traci C. West 243

29 Taking Risks: Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability Strategies / Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) 250

30 Poem on trying to love without fear / Maiana Minahal 267

About South End Press 326.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-304) and index.

ISBN:

089608762X

OCLC:

70707902

Publisher Number:

9780896087620