Bodies in the middle : Black women, sexual violence, and complex imaginings of justice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hislop, Maya (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2024]
Series:	Cultures of resistance
Subjects:	Sex crimes > United States. African American women > Crimes against. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States. Violence sexuelle. Noires américaines > Crimes contre.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Black women use-resist justice as a weapon
Part 1: A history
Justice in the abstract : the (un)intelligibility of sexual violence against Black women in the case of Recy Taylor
Manipulating bodies : versions of justice in State of North Carolina v. Joan Little
"I love this country, but sometimes I'm not sure where I am" : Black immigrant women, sexual violence, and Afro-pessimistic justice in New York v. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Part 2: Literature
Bessie's song
Ursa's song
Ifemelu's song
Conclusion: Where have we been, and where are we going? : an ambivalent future between Afro-pessimism and abolition.