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• Women's Issues in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

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  This compelling edition presents a collection of essays on issues about women that are depicted in Alice Walker's The Color Purple.

• Memorial Drive

  a Daughter's Memoir

  Trethewey, Natasha

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  One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyle A chillingly personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scared Silent

  the Mildred Muhammad Story: a Memoir

  Muhammad, Mildred

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  "Mildred Muhammad, the former wife of convicted "D.C. sniper" John Muhammad, breaks her silence about the domestic violence she suffered during their marriage and the tragic events that occurred after their divorce, which led up to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Race, Culture, and Gender

  Black Female Experiences of Violence and Abuse

  Kanyeredzi, Ava,

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  This book presents an in-depth account of nine Black British women's experiences of violence and abuse. Through in depth interviews and analysis the author reveals their feelings of being silenced as children, women, Black women and as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women

  a Critical Study

  Humann, Heather Duerre, 1974-

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  "This works' aims are threefold: to examine how female African American novelists portray domestic abuse; to outline how literary depictions of domestic violence are responsive to cultural and historical forces; and to explore the literary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

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  Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Battle Cries

  Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse

  Potter, Hillary, 1969-

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  Contrary to the stereotype of the "strong Black woman," African American women are more plagued by domestic violence than any other racial group in the United States. In fact, African American women experience intimate partner violence at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chain Chain Change

  for Black Women in Abusive Relationships

  White, Evelyn C., 1954-

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  Offering practical information for African American women in physically emotionally abusive relationships, the author discusses how to identify abuse, the cycle of violence, agencies and shelters, and using the legal system.

• Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

  a Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

  Gross, Kali N., 1972-

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  Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arrested Justice

  Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation

  Richie, Beth

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Interpersonal Violence in the African American Community

  Evidence-based Prevention and Treatment Practices

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  This book provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Americans. It challenges existing stereotypes of African Americans and offers concrete advice on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everyday Harm

  Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation

  Lazarus-Black, Mindie

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  By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, Everyday Harm studies the limits of what domestic violence law can--and cannot--accomplish. Combining…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform

  Between a Rock and a Hard Place

  Davis, Dána-Ain, 1958-

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  Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.

• Shout Out

  Women of Color Respond to Violence

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  Shout Out was born of the hope that exists when women reach out to one another. Included are critical examinations, creative nonfiction, and poetry that explore a range of responses to the injustices that women worldwide sustain in their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Color of Violence

  the Incite! Anthology

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wounds of the Spirit

  Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics

  West, Traci C., 1959-

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  In Wounds of the Spirit , Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legal Spectatorship

  Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence

  Moore, Kelli, 1976-

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  In Legal Spectatorship Kelli Moore traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States. Tracing its appearance in Article IV of the Constitution, slave narratives, police notation,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color Purple

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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• An American Marriage

  Jones, Tayari,

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• Chain, Chain, Change

  for Black Women Dealing With Physical and Emotional Abuse

  White, Evelyn C., 1954-

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