The Site of Suffering: Black Women, Violence and the Home Restricted; Files Only
Morrison, Mckayla (Spring 2024)
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This thesis will explore how the state of policing shapes and informs domestic violence by interrogating the home as a site of death and suffering for Black women at the hands of both police and domestic partners. I intend to expose the ways in which the response (or non-response) of police to domestic violence is a state-sanctioned replication of the violence already occurring within the space of the home. By drawing a link between these two phenomena I will highlight the “invisibility” of Black women within conversations surrounding police brutality and domestic violence. My work will draw from the intellectual tradition of the questioning of Black relationality and the politics of racial violence from Black feminist thinkers and Black studies scholars. Through the actions of police in encounters with Black women, in response to violence against Black women, and the actions of the perpetrators themselves, I will explore how the positionality of the Black woman, both in society and the home, is constantly and consistently undermined as it is reflected in the cultural normalization of violence against Black women.
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Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................1
Chapter 1: No Home: Invisibility, Vulnerability and "Impossible Privacy"................................................................13
Chapter 2: Comparatively Analyzing Police (Nonresponse) to Domestic Violence Cases & its Legal Implications.......29
Chapter 3: The Aftermath: Legal and Social Causes and Consequences...................................................................45
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................................................57
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