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A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. In recent years there has been increasing awareness of the daily violence at the hands of law enforcement agents faced by women like Sandra Bland, Dajerria Becton, Mya Hall, and Rekia Boyd - on the streets, in their homes and workplaces, and at the border. Invisible No More places these individual stories into broader contexts, centering Black women, Indigenous women and women of color squarely within conversations around the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration. It also documents the evolution of a movement for justice for women of color targeted by police that has been building for decades, largely in the shadows of mainstream campaigns for racial justice and police accountability.
About the Author
Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women's Social Justice Institute, and was a 2014 Senior Soros Justice Fellow. Ritchie is author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women and Queer (In) Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States.
