Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology Panel Discussion – Chicago, IL
Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology Panel Discussion
Monday November 13 6-8 p.m.
Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 S. State St.
This event is free and open to the public.
Reservations are recommended and can be made on-line, via email, or 312.422.5580.
This event is co-sponsored by the Chicago Public Library and Chicago’s Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network.
HOW WILL WE END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN OF COLOR?
Where has the mainstream anti-violence movement gone wrong? What does it mean to reconceptualize violence against women beyond the interpersonal? How can we make connections between gender violence and state violence in the forms of militarism and colonialism? How do we strive to understand and challenge the perpetration of white supremacy?
Join us for this compelling and inspiring exploration of justice and freedom.
Presenting Authors, Activists & Scholars…
Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, co-founder and director of the Institute for MultiRacial Justice. She has been a social justice activist and organizer for over 45 years and published numerous books and articles on popular struggles in the Americas including 500 Years of Chicano History and De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century.
Andrea Ritchie is a progressive lesbian feminist of African Caribbean descent who has worked in the women’s movement in the U.S. and Canada over the past 15 years as an advocate and researcher.
Andrea Smith of the Cherokee is a co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence and the Boarding School Healing Project. She is also Professor of American Studies at the University of Michigan.
Moderated by: Beth E. Richie, the director of African-American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her work focuses on the relationship between domestic violence and poverty, incarceration, substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, and other social problems that are concentratied in communities of color in this country.
More about the anthology…
Color of Violence places women of color at the center of analysis and argues that neither white-dominated discourses on gender violence nor male-dominated discourses on racial violence provide the comprehensive analyses to end racism and sexism.
This anthology presents the fierce and vital writing of 32 visionaries who shift the focus from the interpersonal and map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world.
Copies of Color of Violence will be available to purchase at the event.