How Domestic Violence and Political Activism are Related. A Case Study on African-American Women
How Domestic Violence and Political Activism are Related. A Case Study on African-American Women

Author: Friedarike Santner

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2003-02-20

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 3638173054

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Diploma Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: very good, University of Vienna (Sociology/Anthropology), language: English, abstract: Already before studying social and cultural anthropology and political science, I was an enthusiastic reader of African-American novelists, especially those authored by James Baldwin, and having viewed racism as one form of marginalization and exclusion, I wanted to learn and gain knowledge about this phenomenon and enrolled for these two disciplines. Specializing on African politics in my study, I nevertheless remained interested in the African-American experience and decided to write my thesis on an issue that would be in some proximity to the latter. Through contacts with African-American social and political activists, I finally encountered an issue that I wanted to tackle, it is a circumstance that, in my view then, constituted a contradiction, the gap between the enormous political and social activism of African-American women and on the other hand the high rate of domestic violence and sexual assault in U.S. Black communities.

Battle Cries
Battle Cries

Author: Hillary Potter

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0814767303

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Draws from interviews with forty women to examine how African-American women contend with intimate partner abuse, and looks at the extent of domestic violence against African-American women.

Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence

Author: Lettie L Lockhart

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010-02-04

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 0231521375

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In Domestic Violence: Intersectionality and Culturally Competent Practice, experts working with twelve unique groups of domestic abuse survivors provide the latest research on their populations and use a case study approach to demonstrate culturally sensitive intervention strategies. Chapters focus on African Americans, Native Americans, Latinas, Asian and Pacific Island communities, persons with disabilities, immigrants and refugees, women in later life, LGBT survivors, and military families. They address domestic violence in rural environments and among teens, as well as the role of religion in shaping attitudes and behavior. Lettie L. Lockhart and Fran S. Danis are editors of the Council of Social Work Education's popular teaching modules on domestic violence and founding co-chairs of the CSWE symposium on violence against women and children. In their introduction, they provide a thorough overview of intersectionality, culturally competent practice, and domestic violence and basic practice strategies, such as universal screening, risk assessment, and safety planning. They follow with collaborative chapters on specific populations demonstrating the value of generalist social work practice, including developing respectful relationships that define issues from the survivor's perspective; collecting and assessing data; setting goals and contracting; identifying culturally specific interventions; implementing culturally appropriate courses of action; participating in community-level strategies; and advocating for improved policies and funding at local, state, and federal levels. Featuring resources applicable to both practitioners and clients, Domestic Violence forms an effective tool for analysis and action.

A Critical Legal Study of Solutions to Domestic Violence Among Black Male-female Couples
A Critical Legal Study of Solutions to Domestic Violence Among Black Male-female Couples

Author: Willa Mae Hemmons

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780773472822

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This work is based on real-life cases from courts relating to how justice is applied to Black men and women. It illustrates how the law works differentially to fulfill the aims of the greater society as opposed to those it is purported to serve. The demographic features of race and class undermine the specified purposes of the law and interfere with its original functions when invoked to protect the African-American female. When directed at the African-American male, it serves a divisive function which further alienates him both from society and family.

Change Begins with Me. Research Question
Change Begins with Me. Research Question

Author: Geraldine M. Major

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780591998450

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This study explores the reasons African-American women leave or stay in abusive relationships and the commonalities that direct their decisions. Although studies have been conducted on Black family violence, limited previous studies focused solely on African-American women and domestic abuse or violence in conjugal relationships. the study was designed to document and reflect on the stories of seven African American women who experienced abuse or violence in their intimate relationships; it is just a sampling of the many women who have left or stayed in an abusive relationship. Semi-structured taped interviews, using open ended questions, beginning with a pilot interview, were conducted to ensure that the data elicited from the interviews would be appropriate for the study. the women who participated in this study ranged in age from 31 to 55 years; Six of the seven women who participated in the study have left their abusive partners. the women described the types of abuse and violence they experienced in their relationships and recounted how their decision to leave or stay in the abusive relationship was formed. Applicable responses were analyzed for common threads; and, coupled with an analysis of the myths and stereotypes that are associated with African-American women, culminated in the results. the conclusions identified accepting behaviors which emulate the behaviors of female adult role models and a lack of self-sufficiency. the music intrinsic to this population was also identified as an influencing factor. There is still much work to be done. Educating and empowering African-American women will enhance their self-esteem and awareness and their perception of what constitutes an abusive behavior. This grounding will begin the process of eradicating their dependency on an abusive partner.

Black Feminist Thought
Black Feminist Thought

Author: Patricia Hill Collins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-06-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1135960135

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In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

Arrested Justice
Arrested Justice

Author: Beth E. Richie

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0814708226

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Illuminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violence Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or institutions, Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the U.S.-based movement to end violence against women. Richie argues that Black women face particular peril because of the ways that race and culture have not figured centrally enough in the analysis of the causes and consequences of gender violence. As a result, the extent of physical, sexual and other forms of violence in the lives of Black women, the various forms it takes, and the contexts within which it occurs are minimized—at best—and frequently ignored. Arrested Justice brings issues of sexuality, class, age, and criminalization into focus right alongside of questions of public policy and gender violence, resulting in a compelling critique, a passionate re-framing of stories, and a call to action for change.

At the Dark End of the Street
At the Dark End of the Street

Author: Danielle L. McGuire

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0307389243

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Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men. "An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington Post Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written. In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer—Rosa Parks—to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.