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America, Goddam
Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
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Treva B. Lindsey
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English
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2022
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One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews
"A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."—Publishers Weekly
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation.
Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures.
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. 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. America, Goddam allows readers to understand
"A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."—Publishers Weekly
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation.
Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures.
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. 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. America, Goddam allows readers to understand
- How Black women—who have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participants—are rarely the focus of Black freedom movements.
- How 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.
- How across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led to Black liberation through organizing and radical politics.
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Contributor: Treva B. Lindsey
Treva B. Lindsey is Professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University and founder of the Transformative Black Feminism(s) Initiative in Columbus, Ohio.
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Contents
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Introduction. Goddam, Goddam, Goddam
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1 Say Her Name: Policing Is Violence
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2 The Caged Bird Sings: The Criminal Punishment System
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3 Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence
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4 Violability Is a Preexisting Condition: Dying in the Medical Industrial Complex
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5 Unlivable: The Deadly Consequences of Poverty
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6 They Say I’m Hopeless
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7 We Were Not Meant to Survive
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Epilogue. A Letter to Ma’Khia Bryant
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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June 9, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780520384507
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342
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Keywords for this book
black feminist; women; medical racism; resilience; violence; sexual assault; abuse; trauma; democracy; resistance history; black lives matter; me too movement; say her name; police violence; anti-Black sexism; social justice study; books for social justice activists; gender studies; sociology; stories of hope; survivor; misogynoir
