RT Book
T1 America, goddam: violence, black women, and the struggle for justice
A1 Lindsey, Treva B. 1983-
LA English
PP Oakland
PB University of California Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1810171881
AB A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. America, Goddam powerfully demonstrates that the struggle for justice begins with reckoning with the pervasiveness of violence against Black women and girls in the United States. Combining history, theory, and memoir, America, Goddam renders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. Lindsey also shows that the sanctity of life and liberty for Black men has been a galvanizing rallying cry within Black freedom movements. But Black women—who have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participants in it, and quite often architects of these freedom movements—are rarely the focus. Black women have led movements demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and countless other Black women and girls whose lives have been curtailed by numerous forms of violence. Across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led many to envisioning and building toward Black liberation through organizing and radical politics. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, America, Goddam is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures
CN HV6250.4.W65
SN 9780520384507
K1 Anti-racism : United States
K1 Social Justice : United States
K1 Women, Black : Civil rights : United States
K1 Women, Black : Violence against : United States
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
K1 abuse
K1 anti-Black sexism
K1 black feminist
K1 black lives matter
K1 democracy
K1 inhuman
K1 me too movement
K1 medical racism
K1 police violence
K1 resilience
K1 resistance history
K1 say her name
K1 sexual assault
K1 stories
K1 trauma
K1 violence
K1 women
K1 USA : Intersektionalität : Rassismus : Frauenfeindlichkeit : Kapitalismus : Patriarchat : Gewalttätigkeit : Gewalt : Frau
DO 10.1525/9780520384507