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The final #DecolonizeSAAM week is hosted by LA Coil, Dignity and Power Now, People’s Education Movement, and L.A. INCITE! (along with many other fabulous contributors) on Friday 4/25 at 8am PST

Decolonizing the Anti-Violence Movement & Sexual Assault Awareness Month Reading List

Week 4: Anti-Blackness

1. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistancehttp://www.amazon.com/At-Dark-End-Street-Resistance-A/dp/0307389243

2. White Sexual Violence against Enslaved Black Women http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2014/01/23/sexual-violence-enslaved-black-women/

3. The Normalization of Violence Against Black Women: http://www.thenation.com/blog/176545/normalization-violence-against-black-women#

4. Black Trans Bodies Are Under Attack http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/19/black_trans_bodies_are_under_attack

5. Honoring and Protecting the Lives of Black Trans Women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGkHKXW_54

6. Misogyny, In General vs. Anti-Black Misogyny (Misogynoir), Specifically http://www.gradientlair.com/post/60973580823/general-misogyny-versus-misogynoir

7. In the Clearing http://t.co/UBN0vznBOv

8. People of Color Blindness  http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?p=6345

9. Pacifically Possessed http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d99b172#page-24

10. The Color of Violence  http://colorlines.com/archives/2000/10/the_color_of_violence_against_women.html

11. Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers http://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/59-6-2.pdf

12. The Shocking and Forgotten Toll of Missing Black Women http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088428/The-shocking—forgotten—toll-missing-black-women-U-S.html 

13. Fact Sheet on Domestic Violence & Criminalization: http://www.freemarissanow.org/fact-sheet-on-domestic-violence—criminalization.html

14. Anthony Farley on the erotics and sexualization of policing and antiblackness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0aIXizbnQ&feature=youtu.be&t=1h41m9s

15. “Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder” Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2953316 

16. Seduction and the Ruses of Power http://www.jstor.org/stable/3299219?seq=4

17. Arrested Justice Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814723913 

18. Blackness, Sexuality, and Entertainment https://www.dropbox.com/s/bhbw1gldzfomd0s/Christina%20Sharpe%20-%20Blackness%2C%20Sexuality%20and%20Entertainment.pdf

19. Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? https://www.dropbox.com/s/1q8z1x4tv87zb1m/Frank%20Wilderson%20-%20Gramsci%27s%20Black%20Marx.pdf

20. Something IS Wrong: Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence http://www.project-nia.org/docs/Something_Is_Wrong-Curriculum.pdf

21. The Marginalization of Sexual Violence Against Black Women http://www.sfwar.org/pdf/SACOC/WOC_NCASA_94.pdf