Black Women and State-Sanctioned Violence
A History of Victimization and Exclusion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Breea C Willingham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-94 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.2017.018 |
| OpenAlex | W2766930096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 8 |
Black women and girls continue to battle the intersecting oppressions of race, gender, and justice while living in a society that routinely derogates them and while being victimized by a criminal justice system that was never designed to protect them. This is most evident in their experiences as victims of police violence, including being beaten, raped, or shot to death. This state-sanctioned violence continues decades after the legal end of slavery, and it characterizes the sustained impact race and gender have on black women's experiences with the criminal justice system. This article examines the violence black women have historically endured as subjects of terror or objects for white men, and how this violence is perpetuated in the same way today through interactions with police. I argue that the contemporary state-sanctioned violence black women and girls experience is a manifestation of their continued victimization, dehumanization, and social exclusion, and is a function of the systemic racism that permeates the American criminal injustice system
Criminal justice · Criminology · Dehumanization · Injustice · Political science · Prison · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science · White (mutation · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law
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Examining the relationship between law enforcement agency support of anti-black racism and black people’s evaluations of policing style
State-Sanctioned Violence
Black Women’s Sexual Assertiveness and Satisfaction
Colorism as Historical Trauma
A Qualitative Exploration of Jezebel Stereotype Endorsement and Sexual Behaviors Among Black College Women
What Happens If They Come for You? An Exploration of Mothers’ Racial Socialization on Discrimination With Black College Women
More than numbers
In search of a soft life
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics
No Escape
Mapping Violence
Say Her Name”
What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence
Feminized anti‐Blackness in the professoriate
Theorizing Black women’s experiences with institution-sanctioned violence
Shifting Standards of Sexuality
Not bullet proof’
Carceral Logics in Benevolent Places
Ain't I a woman
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |