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“Reflexive criminalization of Black women… heighten[s] the perception that they are threatening, foreclosing the possibility in police officers' minds that they are simply survivors of violence… Police responses… all too often result in further…violence against them”

Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women

African American Policy Forum

Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams / Ritchie, Andrea J. / Anspach, Rachel / Gilmer, Rachel / Harris, Luke

July 2015

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11990/1926

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